what is domain?

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what is domain?

Answer 1

A domain is the sequence of words, phrases, abbreviations, or characters that identifies a specific computer or network on the Internet and serves as its address.



It is also called the domain name.

Answer 2

The "address" or URL of a particular Web site. This is also how you describe the name that is at the right of the @ sign in an Internet address. For example, yahoo.com is the domain name of this Internet dictionary. There is an organization called InterNIC that registers domain names for a small fee and keeps people from registering the same name. Most recently, more domain names will be allowed due to new suffixes(TLD's) coming out.

Answer 3

Domain is:



1. A territory over which rule or control is exercised.

2. A sphere of activity, concern, or function; a field: the domain of history.

3. Physics. Any of numerous contiguous regions in a ferromagnetic material in which the direction of spontaneous magnetization is uniform and different from that in neighboring regions.

4.Law.

a.The land of one with paramount title and absolute ownership.

b. Public domain.

5. Mathematics.

a. The set of all possible values of an independent variable of a function.

b. An open connected set that contains at least one point.

Computer Science. A group of networked computers that share a common communications address

Answer 4

I assume you are asking in the context of Networking or Internet.



A domain is a Network region. Usually its used to outline a region or group in a network. On the internet, it is most commonly used to signify and address name. For example in www.domain.com, they word "domain" would be the domain. This became popular because it described the name of a space or "domain" on the web. Under your own domain, you can have files and pages of what ever you like.

Answer 5

Domain has several meanings:



General

some kind of territory, such as (for example) a demesne or a realm

synonymous with a metaphorical field, e.g. "the domain of computer science"

a field of study

public domain, a body of works and knowledge without proprietary interest

domain of discourse in symbolic logic

atomic domain - a domain whose elements class as indivisible units

eminent domain, the power of government to confiscate private property for public use

in several Commonwealth countries, the name for parkland made available for public use by the monarch or their representative, the Governor. Examples include:

The Domain, Sydney: a large open space near the central business district of Sydney, Australia

King's Domain, Melbourne: in Victoria, Australia

Queens Domain, Hobart: in Tasmania, Australia

The Domain, Auckland: a large inner-city park in Auckland, New Zealand containing an ancient volcano and the War Memorial Museum

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Sciences

in biology, a domain forms a subdivision even larger than a kingdom

in biochemistry and protein science, a domain is an autonomously folding functional module of a protein

in physics a domain comprises a region of a solid inside which a property is uniform (for example magnetic domain in ferromagnetism)



Mathematics

In mathematics domain can refer to:



the domain of a function

one of the domains of a relation

an ordered structure studied in domain theory

a ring-theoretic domain, an integral domain or a Euclidean domain — types of ring

an open and connected set



Information technology

In information technology, the term domain can refer to:



a machine or virtual host on the Internet; do not confuse the name of a domain - its "domain name" - with the domain itself

a Windows Server domain, a centrally-managed group of computers using the Windows operating-system

a broadcast domain in computer networking

an application domain - the kinds of purposes for which users use a software system

a software engineering domain - a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in that field. See also domain-specific programming languages.

a Common Language Runtime application domain, a mechanism for separating executed applications (similar to a process)

In Database Theory, a Domain is a set of atomic values.

a workstation operating system called Domain/OS.



Etymology

The original etymological implication of the word domain carries the idea of "something ruled". Compare and contrast dominion, domination, dominant and demesne.

Answer 6

Domain is a computer that can control the access of any network

Answer 7

If u r talking about internet domains, then it is a easy to remeber address to a server on the internet.

This domain addresses r converted to IP address by a DNS number. It is faster to get to a site if u know its IP, by that u leave the connection to DNS server...