Field may refer to:

Expanses of open ground

Field (agriculture) In agriculture, a field is an area of land, enclosed or otherwise, used for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops or as a paddock or other enclosure for livestock. A field may also be an area left to lie fallow or as arable land. ...

, an area of land used for agricultural purposes * Airfield, an

aerodrome An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for publ ...

that lacks the infrastructure of an airport * Battlefield *

Lawn A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawnmower (or sometimes grazing animals) and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes. ...

, an area of mowed grass *

Meadow A meadow ( ) is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non- woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character. Meadows may be naturally occurring or artif ...

, a grassland that is either natural or allowed to grow unmowed and ungrazed *

Playing field Play is a range of Motivation#Incentive theories: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but m ...

, 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), 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 Field is an unincorporated community of approximately 169 people located in the Kicking Horse River valley of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, within the confines of Yoho National Park. At an elevation of , it is west of Lake Louise alo ...

, Canada * Field, Kentucky, 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 Leigh is a civil parish in the English county of Staffordshire. The parish includes the village of Church Leigh, together with the settlements of Withington, Upper Leigh, Lower Leigh, Morrilow Heath, Middleton Green, Dods Leigh, Godstone and Fi ...

, England, United Kingdom *

Field, South Australia __NOTOC__ Field is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s south-east about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-east of the municipal seat in Tailem Bend. Its boundaries were cr ...

Field Hill Field Hill is a steep portion of the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway located near Field, British Columbia. Field was created solely to accommodate the Canadian Pacific Railway's need for additional locomotives to be added to trains abou ...

, British Columbia, Canada *

Field Island Field Island is a Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Frobisher Bay, west of Waddell Bay, and southeast of Opera Glass Cape on the Hall Peninsula. Islands in the immedi ...

, Nunavut, Canada *

Mount Field (disambiguation) Mount Field may refer to: * Mount Field (Antarctica) * Mount Field (Tasmania), in Australia ** Mount Field National Park, in Australia * Mount Field (British Columbia), in Canada * Mount Field (cricket ground), in Faversham, England * Mount Fi ...

, mountains in Canada, the United States, Australia and Antarctica

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

Field (computer science) In computer science, data that has several parts, known as a ''record,'' can be divided into fields (data fields). Relational databases arrange data as sets of database records, so called rows. Each record consists of several ''fields''; the fie ...

, a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields) *

Field-programmability {{References, date=September 2022 An electronic device or embedded system is said to be field-programmable or in-place programmable if its firmware (stored in non-volatile memory, such as ROM) can be modified "in the field," without disassemblin ...

, an electronic device's capability of being reprogrammed with new logic

Geology

Field (mineral deposit) A field is a mineral deposit containing a metal or other valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration. It is usually used in the context of a mineral deposit from which it is convenient to extract its metallic component. The deposits a ...

, a mineral deposit containing valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration *

Polje A polje, also karst polje or karst field, is a large flat plain found in karstic geological regions of the world, with areas usually . The name derives from the Slavic languages and literally means 'field', whereas in English ''polje'' specifi ...

or karst field, a characteristic landform in karst topography

Mathematics

Field (mathematics) In mathematics, a field is a set on which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are defined and behave as the corresponding operations on rational and real numbers do. A field is thus a fundamental algebraic structure which i ...

, 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 associating a single number to every point in a space – possibly physical space. The scalar may either be a pure mathematical number ( dimensionless) or a scalar physical quantit ...

, 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 visual field is the "spatial array of visual sensations available to observation in introspectionist psychological experiments". Or simply, visual field can be defined as the entire area that can be seen when an eye is fixed straight at a point ...

, 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) In physics, a field is a physical quantity, represented by a scalar, vector, or tensor, that has a value for each point in space and time. For example, on a weather map, the surface temperature is described by assigning a number to each poin ...

, a mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects ** Electric field, 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 t ...

, 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 classica ...

, 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) 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 f ...

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 Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

, a group of sports