26984 words

domain

8 definitions • 10 examples
1
an area of interest or an area over which a person has control:

Examples:

She treated the business as her private domain.
in the public domain These documents are in the public domain (= available to everyone).
2
a set of websites on the internet that end with the same letters, for example .com
3
the group of possible values of a variable (= a number that can change) of a function:

Examples:

We were unable to do any comparison in 2 of the 10 domains because they had unbounded variables.
4
an area of interest or an area over which a person has control:

Examples:

the domain of polymer science
public and private domains
5
a group of all the possible replacements for a variable (= letter or symbol that represents any set of values)
7
a business activity that is controlled by a particular industry, group of people, etc.:

Examples:

Despite many advertising agencies having moved into their domain, specialised direct marketing agencies remain very competitive.
Currency trading is usually the domain of big banks.
the political/scientific domain
8

Examples:

The organization met to discuss adding new 'top-level' domains, the global designations such as .com and .gov.

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