A field is an area of grass, for example in a park or on a farm. A field is also an area of land on which a crop is grown. a field of wheat They went for walks together in the fields
A sports field is an area of grass where sports are played. a football field Gavin Hastings was helped from the field with ankle injuries
If you say that someone fields a question, you mean that they answer it or deal with it, usually successfully. He was later shown on television, fielding questions
In a relational database, an item of information, such as a chromosome number, or the centimorgan length on a genetic map Some fields are numeric, while others are textual; some are long, while others are short In addition, every field has a name, called the field name In database management systems, a field can be required, optional, or calculated A required field is one in which you must enter data, while an optional field is one you may leave blank A calculated field is one whose value is derived from some formula involving other fields You do not enter data into a calculated field; the system automatically determines the correct value A collection of fields is called a record
A space allocated for a particular item of information A library catalog record, for example, contains a number of fields: author, title, publisher information, date, etc In database systems, fields are the smallest units of information you can access A collection of fields is called a record
a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field" the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event all of the horses in a particular horse race (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational numbers is a field" (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years" somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the field" a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat" a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa" the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl" answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press" play as a fielder catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
When speaking of how data might be collected in databases, or using feedback forms on web pages, for example, we speak of collecting information in pertinent fields Collecting Surnames together in a 'surname' field, for instance, would require that such a field be established within the software that will be sorting inputted data
a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
One half (every other line) of a television picture (frame) A field is one complete vertical scan of the picture One field contains 262 5 lines Two fields create a complete television picture (frame) The lines of the first field are vertically interlaced with the lines of second field to create 525 lines of resolution
A single piece of information within a database (e g , an entry for name or address) Also refers to a specific area within a dialog box or a window where information can be entered
F Field - the part of a record used for a particular category of data For instance, the title (ti) field in a database record displays the title for the record
When awk reads an input record, it splits the record into pieces separated by whitespace (or by a separator regexp which you can change by setting the built-in variable FS) Such pieces are called fields If the pieces are of fixed length, you can use the built-in variable FIELDWIDTHS to describe their lengths See section How Input is Split into Records
an abstract component of a data unit that is assigned a length and a representation The instance of a field is the field value Fields may be divided into sub-fields which may be used as fields [620 0-B-1] an abstract component of a data unit that is assigned a length and a representation The instance of a field is the field value Fields may be divided into sub-fields [610 0-G-5]
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
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