Domain may refer to: [edit] General [edit] Sciences - Atomic domain, a domain whose elements are classified as indivisible units
- Domain (biology), a subdivision even larger than a kingdom
- Domain knowledge, a specific expert knowledge valid for a pre-selected area of activity, such as surgery
- Domain specificity, a theoretical position arguing that many aspects of cognition are supported by specialized learning devices
- Domain wall, a term used in physics which can have one of two distinct but similar meanings in either magnetism or string theory
- Magnetic domain, a region within a magnetic material which has uniform magnetization
- Problem domain, the area of expertise or application that needs to be examined to solve a problem
- Protein domain, an autonomously folding functional module of a protein
- Three-domain system, a biology classification that divides cellular life forms into archaea, bacteria, and eukaryote domains
[edit] Information technology - Application domain, the kinds of purposes for which users use a software system
- Broadcast domain, in computer networking, a group of special purpose addresses to receive network announcements
- Clock domain crossing, when a signal crosses from one clock domain into another
- CLR application domain, a mechanism for separating executed applications (similar to a process)
- Collision domain, a physical network segment that is a shared medium where data packets can "collide" with one another
- Data domain, in database theory, a set of all permitted values
- Domain (software engineering), a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in that field
- Domain analysis, the process of analyzing related software systems in a domain to find their common and variable parts
- Domain-driven design, an approach to the design of software
- Domain engineering, the reusing of domain knowledge in the production of new software
- Domain hack, a domain name that combines domain levels to spell out the full "name" or title of the domain
- Domain information groper a tool that queries DNS servers for any desired DNS records
- Domain model, a conceptual model of a system that describes the various entities involved and their relationships
- Domain name registrar, an organization that manages the reservation of Internet domain names in one or more domains
- Domain name registry, a database of all domain names registered in a top-level domain
- Domain name, a common network name under which a collection of network devices are organized (e.g., example.com)
- Domain Name System (DNS), an hierarchical naming system for computers or any resource connected to the Internet
- Domain privacy, a service that replaces the user's information in the WHOIS directory with the information of a forwarding service
- Domain-specific language, a programming language or specification language dedicated to a particular problem domain
- Domain-specific modeling, a software engineering methodology that uses a graphical domain-specific language
- Domain/OS, a workstation operating system
- Full Domain Hash, an RSA-based signature scheme that follows the hash-and-sign paradigm
- Second-level domain, a domain that is directly below a top-level domain
- Top-level domain one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet
- Windows Server domain, a centrally-managed group of computers using the Windows operating-system
[edit] Mathematics - Dedekind domain, an integral domain in which every nonzero proper ideal factors into a product of prime ideals
- Domain (ring theory), a nontrivial ring without left or right zero divisors
- Euclidean domain, a ring that can be endowed with a certain structure – namely a Euclidean function
- Integral domain, a commutative ring without zero divisors and with a multiplicative identity 1 not equal to 0, the additive identity
- Domain coloring, a technique for visualizing functions of a complex variable
- Domain decomposition methods, solve a boundary value problem by splitting it into smaller problems on subdomains
- Domain of a function, also called the source, the set of input values for which the function is defined
- Domain of discourse, an analytic tool that indicates the relevant set of entities that are being dealt with by quantifiers
- Domain relational calculus, a calculus that was introduced as a declarative database query language for the relational data model
- Domain theory, a branch of mathematics that studies special kinds of partially ordered sets (posets) commonly called domains
- Frequency domain, a term used to describe the analysis of mathematical functions with respect to frequency, rather than time
- Fundamental domain, a symmetry group of an object is a part or pattern, as small or irredundant as possible, which determines the whole object based on the symmetry
- Invariance of domain, a theorem in topology about homeomorphic subsets of Euclidean space
- Problem domain analysis, the process of creating a model describing the problem to be solved
- Time domain, a term used to describe the analysis of mathematical functions with respect to time
- Domain, an open and connected set in topology
[edit] Places - The Domain (Austin), a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, USA
- In several Commonwealth of Nations countries, the name for parkland made available for public use by the monarch or their representative, the Governor. Examples include:
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