# Field: Wikis

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# Encyclopedia

## Contents

Field or fields may refer to:

## Science and mathematics

• Electric field, the effect of electric charged objects on surrounding space
• Field (mathematics), an algebraic structure with an addition and a multiplication operation satisfying the ordinary axioms of arithmetic
• Scalar field, a mapping that assigns scalar values to points in space
• Vector field, a mapping that assigns vector values to points in space
• Tensor field, a mapping that assigns tensor values to points in space
• Field (physics), the presence of a quantity at every point of space
• Field (geography), with a definition similar to that of physics but in a different context and using unique models and methods
• Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields)
• Field of sets, a mathematical structure of sets in an abstract space
• Field winding or field magnet, the stator of an electric motor
• Field-programmability, an electronic device's capability of being reprogrammed with new logic

## Sociology and politics

• 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: see Political campaign staff, Field/Ground Department
• Sexual field, a term that describes systems of objective relations within collective sexual life.

## Brand names

Field may refer to:

## Sociology and politics

• 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, a term that describes systems of objective relations within collective sexual life

# Travel guide

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

### From Wikitravel

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Field [1] is a cozy mountain village located in Yoho National Park within the Canadian Rockies in Canada.

The town served as a base for workers on the Canadian Pacific Railway in its early days, and now hosts a small community of population 200, in addition to hosting the Yoho Park administration building and a number of quaint gift shops, restaurants, and small accommodations.

## Get in

Field is located a 2.5 hour drive west of Calgary along the Trans-Canada Highway through Banff National Park, passing Banff and Lake Louise along the way. Field can also be reached along the TCH from Vancouver to the west.

## See

Spiral Tunnel - located about 10 minutes from the small town of field. Catch the Trans-Canada train spiraling through the mountain around 2PM.

Takakkaw Falls - the third tallest waterfall in Canada 45 minutes from Field.

Kathryn and Ryan Cameron working in their studio gallery
• Truffle Pigs Cafe, [3]
• Kicking Horse Lodge Restaurant [4]
• Cathedral Mountain Lodge
• Emerald Lake Lodge & Cilantro's
• Chercher La Vache Cafe, 316 Steven Ave, +1-250-343-6336. 8am-late, kitchen closes at 9pm. A great little cafe with amazing food. Some nights have live music. Has free wireless Internet and a patio. Doubles as the coffee shop, corner store, liquor store and souvenir shop. Many of the staff speak French.  edit

## Drink

Have a drink in the sunshine on the patio at the Truffle Pigs Cafe or Kicking Horse Lodge.

The Kicking Horse Lodge and Mount Dennis on a sunny day in Field
• Kicking Horse Lodge, 100 Centre, +1 250 343-6303, Toll-free: +1 800 659-4944, khlodge@telus.net, [5].
• Alpine Guesthouse, 313 2nd Ave., +1 250 343-6878, [6].
• The Bear's Den Guesthouse, +1 250 343-6439, [7].
• The Old Church Guesthouse, +1 250 343-6345, Fax: +1 250 343-6388, [8].
• Canadian Rockies Inn, 308 Stephen Ave Field, BC (Google Map), 250 343 6046, [9]. checkin: 4PM; checkout: 11AM. Canadian Rockies Inn, your home away from home in the heart of the Canadian rockies. Low season \$131.25 CAD High season \$194.25 CAD.  edit
 Routes through Field
 Kamloops ← Golden ← W  E → Lake Louise (in Banff NP) → Banff

# Study guide

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

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A field is a function of the position in space. It can be a function of other variables as well: For example, the Electric field is a function of position and of time, since the charged particles which generate it can be in motion.

Depending on the value of the function it is called a Scalar field (if the function gives a number) or a Vectorial field (if it gives a vector). The aforesaid Electric field is an example of vetorial field, while the Temperature in every point of a room is a scalar field.

# 1911 encyclopedia

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

### From LoveToKnow 1911

FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. folde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. 7rXaT6c, broad), open country as opposed to woodland or to the town, and particularly land for cultivation divided up into separate portions by hedges, banks, stone walls, &c.; also used in combination with words denoting the crop grown on such a portion of land, such as corn-field, turnip-field, &c. The word is similarly applied to a region with particular reference to its products, as oil-field, gold-field, &c. For the "open" or "common field" system of agriculture in village communities see COMMONS. Generally with a reference to their "wild" as opposed to their "domestic" nature "field" is applied to many animals, such as the "field-mouse." There are many applications of the word; thus from the use of the term for the place where a battle is fought, and widely of the whole theatre of war, come such phrases as to "take the field" for the opening of a campaign, "in the field" of troops that are engaged in the operations of a campaign. It is frequently used figuratively in this sense, of the subject matter of a controversy, and also appears in military usage, in field-fortification, field-day and the like. A "field-officer'." is one who ranks above a captain and below a general (see OFFICERS); a field marshal is the highest rank of general officer in the British and many European armies (see MARSHAL). "Field" is used in many games, partly with the idea of an enclosed space, partly with the idea of the ground of military operations, for the ground in which such games as cricket, football, baseball and the like are played. Hence it is applied to those players in cricket and baseball who are not "in," and "to field" is to perform the functions of such a player - to stop or catch the ball played by the "in" side. "The field" is used in hunting, &c., for those taking part in the sport, and in racing for all the horses entered for a race, and, in such expressions as "to back the field," is confined to all the horses with the exception of the "favourite." A common application of the word is to a surface, more or less wide, as of the sky or sea, or of such physical phenomena as ice or snow, and particularly of the ground, of a special "tincture," on which armorial bearings are displayed (see HERALDRY); it is thus used also of the "ground" of a flag, thus the white ensign of the British navy has a red St George's cross on a white "field." In scientific usage the word is also used of the sphere of observation or of operations, and has come to be almost equivalent to a department of knowledge. In physics, a particular application is that to the area which is influenced by some agent, as in the magnetic or electric field. The field of observation or view is the area within which objects can be seen through any optical instrument at any one position. A "field-glass" is the name given to a binocular glass used in the field (see BINOCULAR INSTRUMENT); the older form of field-glass was a small achromatic telescope with joints. This terms is also applied, in an astronomical telescope or compound microscope, to that one of the two lenses of the "eye-piece" which is next to the object-glass; the other is called the "eye-glass."

# Wiktionary

Up to date as of January 15, 2010
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## English

Most common English words: Indian « produce « drawn « #827: field » street » attempt » soft

### Etymology

From Old English feld, from Proto-Germanic; related to Latin planus and English floor.

### Noun

 Singular field Plural fields

field (plural fields)

1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
2. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
3. The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
4. (physics) A region affected by a particular force.
magnetic field
5. A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
6. (mathematics) A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element.
The set of rational numbers, $\mathbb{Q}$, is the prototypical field.
7. (sports) An area reserved for playing a game.
soccer field
8. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
oil field or oilfield
gold field or goldfield
9. (heraldry) The background of the shield
10. (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.

#### Synonyms

• (course of study or domain of knowledge): area, domain, sphere
• (sports: area reserved for playing a game): course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitch (for soccer, rugby, cricket)

#### Derived terms

 left field number field outfield play the field quadratic field right field scalar field splitting field vector field

#### Translations

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### Verb

 Infinitive to field Third person singular fields Simple past fielded Past participle fielded Present participle fielding

to field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)

1. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
2. (transitive, sports) To place a team in (a game).
She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

#### Translations

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# Bible wiki

Up to date as of January 23, 2010

### From BibleWiki

(Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Gen. 29:2; 31:4; 34:7), or tillage (Gen. 37:7; 47:24). It is also applied to woodland (Ps. 132:6) or mountain top (Judg. 9:32, 36; 2 Sam. 1:21). It denotes sometimes a cultivated region as opposed to the wilderness (Gen. 33:19; 36:35). Unwalled villages or scattered houses are spoken of as "in the fields" (Deut. 28:3, 16; Lev. 25:31; Mark 6:36, 56). The "open field" is a place remote from a house (Gen. 4:8; Lev. 14:7, 53; 17:5). Cultivated land of any extent was called a field (Gen. 23:13, 17; 41:8; Lev. 27:16; Ruth 4:5; Neh. 12:29).

This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.

# Simple English

Field can mean:

• an area of land in a farm, which may be used for crops or animals; also a meadow or area that is empty of trees, and has mostly grass.
• in computing, an item of data;
• field of vision, the area in sight of a person.
• in mathematics, a certain kind of algebraic structure: field (mathematics)