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Field

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Field may refer to:

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
- 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

Field department, 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, in Chicago

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 (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields)
Column (database), sometimes referred to as 'field', with various meanings

Field (mathematics), a type of algebraic structure
- Number field, a specific type of the above algebraic structure
Scalar field, assignment of a scalar to each point in a mathematical space
Spinor field, assignment of a spinor 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, union of its domain and its range

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
Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display

Field (physics), a mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects
- Electric field, a term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles
- Magnetic field, a force produced by moving electric charges
- Electromagnetic field, the combination of electric and magnetic fields
- Gravitational field, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point

Field (Bourdieu), 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

Field (geography), a spatially dependent variable
Field (mineral deposit), a mineral deposit containing valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration
Field research or fieldwork, the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting