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

motif Motif may refer to: General concepts * Motif (chess composition), an element of a move in the consideration of its purpose * Motif (folkloristics), a recurring element that creates recognizable patterns in folklore and folk-art traditions * Moti ...

s **

Field (heraldry) In heraldry, the background of the shield is called the '' field''. The field is usually composed of one or more tinctures (colours or metals) or furs. The field may be divided or may consist of a variegated pattern. In rare modern cases, the ...

, 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 Political campaign staff are the group of people who formulate and implement the strategy of a political campaign. Campaign staffs are generally composed both of unpaid volunteers and paid employees of either the campaign itself or a related po ...

, 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 The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational ...

, in Chicago

People

Field (surname) Field is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Field (disambiguation), several people of that name * Amod Field (born 1967), American football player *Andy Field (academic) (born 1973), professor of psychology at the Unive ...

* Field Cate (born 1997), American child actor

Places

* Field, British Columbia, Canada *

Field, Kentucky Field is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community located in Bell County, Kentucky, Bell County, Kentucky, United States. References

Unincorporated communities in Bell County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Co ...

, United States * Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States *

Field, Ontario West Nipissing is a municipality in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, on Lake Nipissing in the Nipissing District. It was formed on January 1, 1999, with the amalgamation of seventeen and a half former town, villages, townships and unorganized communi ...

, 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

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

* Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields) * 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 In mathematics and physics, a scalar field is a function (mathematics), function associating a single number to every point (geometry), point in a space (mathematics), space – possibly physical space. The scalar may either be a pure Scalar ( ...

, 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 In mathematics, a binary relation associates elements of one set, called the ''domain'', with elements of another set, called the ''codomain''. A binary relation over Set (mathematics), sets and is a new set of ordered pairs consisting of ele ...

, 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 depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image captured with a camera. Factors affecting depth of field For cameras that can only focus on one object dist ...

, 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) In physics, a field is a physical quantity, represented by a scalar (mathematics), scalar, vector (mathematics and physics), vector, or tensor, that has a value for each Point (geometry), point in Spacetime, space and time. For example, on a weat ...

, a mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects **

Electric field An electric field (sometimes E-field) is the physical field that surrounds electrically charged particles and exerts force on all other charged particles in the field, either attracting or repelling them. It also refers to the physical field fo ...

, term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles **

Magnetic field A magnetic field is a vector field that describes the magnetic influence on moving electric charges, electric currents, and magnetic materials. A moving charge in a magnetic field experiences a force perpendicular to its own velocity and to ...

, force produced by moving electric charges **

Electromagnetic field An electromagnetic field (also EM field or EMF) is a classical (i.e. non-quantum) field produced by (stationary or moving) electric charges. It is the field described by classical electrodynamics (a classical field theory) and is the classical c ...

, combination of an electric field and magnetic field **

Gravitational field In physics, a gravitational field is a model used to explain the influences that a massive body extends into the space around itself, producing a force on another massive body. Thus, a gravitational field is used to explain gravitational phenome ...

, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point

Sociology

Field (Bourdieu) In sociology, field theory examines how individuals construct social fields, and how they are affected by such fields. Social fields are environments in which competition between individuals and between groups takes place, such as markets, ac ...

, 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) In the context of spatial analysis, geographic information systems, and geographic information science, a field is a property that fills space, and varies over space, such as temperature or density. This use of the term has been adopted from p ...

, 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 Field magnet refers to a magnet used to produce a magnetic field in a device. It may be a permanent magnet or an electromagnet. When the field magnet is an electromagnet, it is referred to as a field coil. Although the term usually refers to magne ...

, 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

heliostat A heliostat (from ''helios'', the Greek word for ''sun'', and ''stat'', as in stationary) is a device that includes a mirror, usually a plane mirror, which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating ...

s, an assembly of heliostats acting together

Sports

* Pitch (sports field)

Other uses

* Field of study, a subdivision of an academic discipline *

Field of use A field-of-use limitation is a provision in a patent license that limits the scope of what the patent owner authorizes a manufacturing licensee (that is, a licensee that manufactures a patented product or performs a patented process) to do in relat ...

, permissible operation by the licensee of a patent * Track and field, a group of sports