Domain

Noun

 * 1) A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
 * 2) A sphere of influence.
 * 3) A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
 * 4)  The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
 * 5)  An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
 * 6)  Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains
 * 7) * 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium
 * Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.
 * 1)  A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains
 * 2)  A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside
 * 3)  The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names
 * 4)  In the three-domain system, the highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in other taxonomic systems, a similarly high rank
 * 5)  In the three-domain system, one of three taxa at that rank: Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.

Synonyms

 * domain of definition
 * domain name, hostname

Antonyms

 * range
 * codomain

Derived terms

 * domain hack
 * domaining
 * domainless
 * domain name
 * domain of discourse
 * source domain
 * subdomain
 * target domain
 * top-level domain

Related terms

 * DNS
 * dominate
 * dominion
 * domino

Adjectives
temporal; spiritual; allied (pi) ; speckless; ancestral; rough-hewn; extended; unexploited; bleak; ecclesiastical; obscure; shifting; elastic; scanty;  shattered;   melancholy; eminent; imperial; unassailable; forbidden; flourishing; impenetrable; outlying; allpervading; vast.

Thesaurus
academic discipline, academic specialty, acres, ally, ambit, animal kingdom, applied science, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arena, art, bailiwick, beat, body politic, border, borderland, buffer state, captive nation, chain of being, champaign, chattels real, chieftaincy, chieftainry, circle, circuit, city-state, class structure, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, concern, country, county, demesne, department, department of knowledge, discipline, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, establishment, field, field of inquiry, field of study, free city, grand duchy, grounds, hemisphere, hierarchy, honor, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, kingdom, land, landed property, lands, lot, lots, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, manor, march, messuage, mineral kingdom, nation, nationality, natural hierarchy, natural science, ology, orb, orbit, pale, parcel, pecking order, plat, plot, polis, polity, possession, power, power structure, praedium, precinct, principality, principate, property, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, pure science, pyramid, quadrat, real estate, real property, realm, realty, republic, round, satellite, science, seneschalty, settlement, social science, sovereign nation, speciality, specialization, specialty, sphere, state, study, subdiscipline, sultanate, superpower, technicology, technics, technology, tenements, terrain, territory, toft, toparchia, toparchy, vegetable kingdom, walk

Etymology
< demeine, demain (rule),  demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (power),  domaine <  dominium: < dominus:. See dame, and confer demain, danger, dungeon.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: domein
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: επικράτεια


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: đất đai, tài sản, dinh cơ


 * Bulgarian: сфера на влияние
 * Finnish: vaikutuspiiri
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: σφαίρα επιρροής
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: sfera di influenza


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: tighearnas, tighearnachd
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Bulgarian:
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 * German: ,


 * Greek: ,
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 * Bulgarian: интервал на съществуване
 * Czech:
 * Estonian: määramispiirkond
 * Finnish: määrittelyalue
 * German:
 * Greek: πεδίο ορισμού
 * Hebrew:, תחום הגדרה
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic: formengi, frámengi, skilgreiningarmengi, óðal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 定義域, 始域
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: tập xác định


 * Hebrew:


 * Arabic: مجال إنترنت‎
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 域名
 * Esperanto: domajno
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
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 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: домен
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: không gian tên, tên miền không gian


 * German: ,
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:


 * German:, ,
 * Italian:


 * Polish:


 * German: ,
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Vietnamese: không gian tên, tên miền không gian


 * Finnish: domeeni
 * German: ,


 * Vietnamese: lãnh giới, vực


 * : domeniu, sfera

Anagrams

 * daimon
 * domina