Field

Field may refer to:

Expanses of open ground

 * Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes
 * Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport
 * Battlefield
 * Lawn, an area of mowed grass
 * Meadow, a grassland that is either natural or allowed to grow unmowed and ungrazed
 * Playing field, used for sports or games

Arts and media

 * In decorative art, the main area of a decorated zone, often contained within a border, often the background for motifs
 * Field (heraldry), the background of a shield
 * In flag terminology, the background of a flag
 * FIELD (magazine), a literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio
 * Field (sculpture), by Anthony Gormley

Organizations

 * Field department, the division of a political campaign tasked with organizing local volunteers and directly contacting voters
 * Field Enterprises, a defunct private holding company
 * Field Communications, a division of Field Enterprises
 * Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago

People

 * Field (surname)
 * Field Cate (born 1997), American child actor

Places

 * Field, British Columbia, Canada
 * Field, Kentucky, United States
 * Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
 * Field, Ontario, Canada
 * Field, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
 * Field, South Australia
 * Field Hill, British Columbia, Canada
 * Field Island, Nunavut, Canada
 * Mount Field (disambiguation), mountains in Canada, the United States, Australia and Antarctica

Biology

 * Morphogenetic field, a discrete region of cells in an embryo

Computing

 * Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields)
 * Column (database), sometimes referred to as 'field', with various meanings
 * Field-programmability, an electronic device's capability of being reprogrammed with new logic

Geology

 * Field (mineral deposit), a mineral deposit containing valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration
 * Polje or karst field, a characteristic landform in karst topography

Mathematics

 * Field (mathematics), type of algebraic structure
 * Number field, specific type of the above algebraic structure
 * Scalar field, assignment of a scalar to each point in a mathematical space
 * Tensor field, assignment of a tensor to each point in a mathematical space
 * Vector field, assignment of a vector to each point in a mathematical space
 * Field of sets, a mathematical structure of sets in an abstract space
 * Field of a binary relation, union of its domain and its range

Optics

 * Field of view, the area of a view imaged by a lens
 * Visual field, the part of the field of view which can be perceived by the eye's retina
 * Depth of field, the distance from before to beyond the subject that appears to be in focus (and likewise, field, in the context of depth, is the portion of a scene for which objects within its range are or would be in focus)

Physics

 * Field (physics), a mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects
 * Electric field, term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles
 * Magnetic field, force produced by moving electric charges
 * Electromagnetic field, combination of an electric field and magnetic field
 * Gravitational field, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point

Sociology

 * Field (Bourdieu), a sociological term coined by Pierre Bourdieu to describe the system of objective relations constituted by various species of capital
 * Sexual field, the systems of objective relations within collective sexual life

Other uses in science and technology

 * Field (geography), a spatially dependent variable
 * Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display
 * Field coil, of an electric motor or generator
 * Field experiment
 * Field magnet, a magnet used to produce a magnetic field
 * Field research or fieldwork, the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting
 * Field of heliostats, an assembly of heliostats acting together

Other uses

 * Field of study, a subdivision of an academic discipline
 * Field of use, permissible operation by the licensee of a patent
 * Track and field, a group of sports