Definition of Domain. Meaning of Domain. Synonyms of Domain

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Definition of Domain

Domain
Domain Do*main", n. [F. domaine, OF. demaine, L. dominium, property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, owner. See Dame, and cf Demesne, Dungeon.] 1. Dominion; empire; authority. 2. The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. --E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. --J. C. Shairp. 3. Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. --Shenstone. 4. (Law) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [U.S.]

Meaning of Domain from wikipedia

- Look up domain or Domain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A domain is a geographic area controlled by a single person or organization. Domain may also...
- The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been...
- top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level...
- A domain wall is a type of topological soliton that occurs whenever a discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken. Domain walls are also sometimes called...
- Domain-driven design (DDD) is a major software design approach, focusing on modeling software to match a domain according to input from that domain's...
- An application domain is a mechanism (similar to a process in an operating system) used within the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) to isolate executed...
- In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control. Domain names are often used to identify...
- A domain controller (DC) is a server that responds to security authentication requests within a computer network domain. It is a network server that is...
- protein domain is a region of a protein's polypeptide chain that is self-stabilizing and that folds independently from the rest. Each domain forms a compact...
- The domain com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Created in the first group of Internet domains in March of...