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

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

Field (geography), with a definition similar to that of physics but in a different context and using unique models and methods
Field research or fieldwork, the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting

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 (physics), 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

Field coil or field magnet of an electric motor or generator
Field of heliostats, an assembly of heliostats acting together
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

Field (Bourdieu), a sociological term coined by Pierre Bourdieu to describe the system of objective relations constituted by various species of capital
Field department, the division of a political campaign tasked with organizing local volunteers and directly contacting voters
Sexual field, the systems of objective relations within collective sexual life

Field Enterprises, a defunct private holding company
- Field Communications, a division of Field Enterprises
Field Records, a record label

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
- Field, in flag terminology, the background of a flag
Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display

Field of study, a subdivision of an academic discipline
Field of use, permissible operation by the licensee of a patent
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)
Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago
FIELD (magazine), a literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio
Field (sculpture), by Anthony Gormley
In the field: outdoors and away from home, office, base or headquarters
- Field agent, the kind of agent, officer or operative whose primary tasks take place outside the office or headquarters
- Field slave, the sort of transatlantic slave who labored outdoors, in the plantation fields
Track and field, a group of sports