Meaning of domain in English

domain

noun [ C ]

/dəˈmeɪn/ us

/doʊˈmeɪn/

domain noun [C] (AREA)

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an area of interest or an area over which a person has control:

She treated the business as her private domain.

in the public domain These documents are in the public domain (= available to everyone).

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Are you still looking for some kind of job in the political domain?
I don't do any gardening - that's my wife's domain.
The report should never have been released into the public domain.
Now that she is a teenager, her bedroom is strictly her own personal domain.
You'd better ask Paul - electronics is not my domain, I'm afraid.

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Duty, obligation and responsibility

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Topics & areas of interest

domain noun [C] (INTERNET)

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a set of websites on the internet that end with the same letters, for example .com

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domain noun [C] (MATHEMATICS)

mathematics specialized

the group of possible values of a variable (= a number that can change) of a function:

We were unable to do any comparison in 2 of the 10 domains because they had unbounded variables.

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the simultaneous assessment of multiple domains of variables
Most of what is known was gleaned from investigations that focused on relatively narrow domains of variables.
Assume that the given functions in (2.1)-(2.3) are continuous on their respective domains.

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Numerical relationships

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(Definition of domain from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

domain | American Dictionary

domain

noun [ C ]

/doʊˈmeɪn, də-/

domain noun [C] (INTEREST)

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an area of interest or an area over which a person has control:

the domain of polymer science

public and private domains

domain noun [C] (GROUP OF VALUES)

mathematics

a group of all the possible replacements for a variable (= letter or symbol that represents any set of values)

(Definition of domain from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

domain | Business English

domain

noun [ C ]

/dəʊˈmeɪn/ us

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a particular interest, activity, or type of knowledge

a business activity that is controlled by a particular industry, group of people, etc.:

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.

Boardroom decisions are the exclusive domain of company directors.

the political/scientific domain

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the private domain

the public domain

INTERNET

a group of computers or websites that are organized by purpose, for example, to provide education or sell products:

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

(Definition of domain from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of domain

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Subsequently, these domains appear to have been recruited for various interactions in other bacterial proteins.

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In adults, some categories of events are probably organized much as some domains of object categories are.

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As children add more words to their vocabulary, they also build up further domains.

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In the present paper, this integrated structure was observed across different domains of functioning ranging from psychological to physical functioning.

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There is firstly a skill perspective, in which competence reflects the range and level of skills in the social, cognitive, emotional and motor domains.

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Additionally, the tasks demanded of subjects in these investigations differ across the two stimulus domains.

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Exclusion can operate in different domains with particular effects.

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Several have a variety of domains, which may be useful in determining protein function.

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There are coiled-coil domains, that differ in length and number, in all the myosins.

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In the context of the nucleus, acidic domains are often protein-protein interaction domains.

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In addition to these domains there are two leucine zippers starting at base pairs 484 and 505 suggesting protein-protein interaction.

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To date, little is known of projections that might be used to integrate information in these domains or to coordinate output.

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In this way men continued to act as the mediators between the public and private domains, between the world of politics and the family.

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Scientists present their ideas to the general public, contributing directly or indirectly to debates in social, legal, and religious domains.

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Critical assistance in exploring these domains has come primarily from romanticists working in the second category.

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Collocations with domain

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binding domain

Over the past thirty years, there have been many attempts to characterize exactly what constitutes the relevant binding domain and what constitutes the relevant prominence.

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broad domains

Further study of the timing and sequence of events represented by these broad domains would clarify their role in the etiology of child behavior problems.

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catalytic domain

To prevent this from occurring normally, many kinases have a companion regulatory domain that is distinct from the catalytic domain.

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Translations of domain

in Chinese (Traditional)

區域, 領域，領地, 網際網路／互聯網…

Meaning of domain in English

domain noun [C] (AREA)

domain noun [C] (INTERNET)

domain noun [C] (MATHEMATICS)

domain | American Dictionary

domain noun [C] (INTEREST)

domain noun [C] (GROUP OF VALUES)

domain | Business English

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