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Kevan R. Wylie, Anthony Bains, Tina Ball, Patricia Barnes, Rohan Collier, Jane Craig, Linda Delaney, Julia Field, Danya Glaser, Peter Greenhouse, Mary Griffin, Margot Huish, Anne M. Johnson, George Kinghorn, Helen Mott, Paula Nicolson, Jane Read, Fran Reader, Gwyneth Sampson, Peter Selman, José von Bühler, Jane Wadsworth, Kaye Wellings, and Stephen Whittle
Contiuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
...supportive of the political status quo. The legislative disinterest in the activities of higher and professional education in the field of human sexuality and the dedicated work of individuals allowed universities and medical schools to design and deliver functional and integrative programs in human sexuality. Thankfully, these educational programs provided the United Kingdom with practitioners, teachers, and researchers in the field of sexuality since the mid-1980s. At the same time, voluntary agencies became repositories of the considerable body of knowledge...
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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000
... In heraldry, the field is the background of a coat of...
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A Dictionary of Oil & Gas Industry Terms (2 ed.)
... Field An alternative term for a formation . ...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n. A bounded area, especially a region within which a body experiences forces resulting from the presence of other bodies not in contact with it (as in a gravitational or a magnetic field), or more generally any region within which certain specified phenomena occur. See also field dependence–independence , field effect , field theory , life space , receptive field , topological psychology , visual field...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... n. an area on which a battle is fought: a field of battle. v. deploy (an army): the small gulf sheikdoms fielded 11,500 troops with the Saudis. adj. (of equipment) light and mobile for use on campaign: field artillery. in the field on campaign; (while) engaged in combat or maneuvers: troops in the field. keep the field archaic continue a military campaign. take the field start a military...
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Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2 ed.)
... 1 a region of space in which a force is exerted on an object because of its charge ( electric field ), magnetic dipole ( magnetic field ), mass ( gravitational field ), or other attribute. 2 a region of space through which (ionizing) radiation is passing. 3 or field of view the area within which an object is observable with a microscope or other optical...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (4 ed.)
... field the Elysian fields : see elysian . fresh fields and pastures new : see pasture . from left field : see left . have a field day have full scope...
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A Dictionary of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (5 ed.)
... 1. The region in which a physical agency exerts its influence. Typical examples are electric and magnetic fields resulting from the presence of charge or magnetic dipoles. These are vector fields . Such a field may be pictorially represented by a set of curves, referred to as lines of force or of flux. The field density and direction at a point represent the strength and direction of the field at that point. 2. ( in computing ) A set of symbols treated together as a unit of information. 3. See television . ...
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Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
... . The phrase the field of is often vague and unnecessary—e.g.: • “Lindsey . . . accrued a 3.91 grade point average while studying in the field of [delete in the field of ] communications.” “Carter Gets Pharmacy Degree, Loyd Academic Honors,” Knoxville News-Sentinel , 12 July 1994 , at B2. • “For O’Neill and Hajnal, the war solidified their desire to enter the field of [delete the field of ] law enforcement.” Andy Kravetz , “10 Years Ago Today, America and Its Allies Launched an Air Blitz Against Iraq,” Peoria J. Star , 17 Jan....
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
...dominance with other fields (e.g. the literary field and the educational field). 4. The everyday setting of ethnographic research: see ethnography . 5. (video engineering) One of two subdivisions of a video frame corresponding to one line of magnetic information contained in a single helical scan on videotape: field one contains all the odd TV lines; field two all the even ones. Each field decodes as a still image of video, but in interlaced video standards (which include PAL and NTSC ) the images captured in each field are slightly...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3 ed.)
... Generally of a network of paradigmatic relations that units of a language enter into, or of a conceptual or other area that such a network covers. Hence especially of semantic fields : also e.g. in Pike’s distinction between a field view of language and a ‘particle’ or a ‘wave’...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... 1. An area of land used for agricultural or playing purposes. 2. An area rich in natural resources that can be mined. 3. A subject discipline area—speciality. 4. An area of force, e.g. magnetic field...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...we shall be in a field of research where the traditional methods of searching in archives are reinforced by the aerial survey and by field-work. Field works Defensive or protective works, or temporary fortifications, made by an army to strengthen its positions. Cold Bath Fields See under cold . Hold or keep the field, To See under hold . Left-field See under left 1 . Master of the field See under master . Play the field, To See under play . Potter’s field See under potter . Three-field system See under three . Win the field, To See under ...
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A Dictionary of Physics (8 ed.)
...field and electric field that together create the electromagnetic interaction, the force can vary in direction according to the character of the field. For example, in the field surrounding a negatively charged body, a positively charged body will experience a force of attraction, while another negatively charged body is repelled. The strength of any field can be described as the ratio of the force experienced by a small appropriate specimen to the relevant property of that specimen, e.g. force/mass for the gravitational field. See also quantum field...
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A Dictionary of Journalism
...field 1. A network of individuals, groups, and institutions that together comprise a particular domain or area of activity, in which sense individual journalists may be thought of as belonging to the journalistic field. According to cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu ( 1930–2002 ), such a field provides the social context and constraints within which individual activity takes place ( see autonomy ), although different fields may compete with each other and/or overlap ( see also boundary maintenance ). 2. Where reporting is said to take place if it...
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A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism
... A particular area of a computer screen or VDU , as well as normal everyday uses of the...
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (2 ed.)
... Semantics . A range or system of referents that have some aspect of meaning in common. Sometimes called domain . The theory of semantic fields asserts that the meaning of a word depends partly on the other words it is related to in meaning. All such words together constitute a semantic field (or lexical field ). In different languages the same field is often apportioned differently, with dissimilar sets of terms used for that field. Classic examples are the fields of colour and kinship. It is well known that languages divide the colour spectrum...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6 ed.)
...field A commutative ring with identity with the following additional property: (x) For each non-zero a there is an element a −1 such that a −1 a = 1. (The axiom numbering here follows on from that used for ring and integral domain .) From the defining properties of a field, Axioms (i)–(viii) and Axiom (x), it can be shown that ab = 0 only if a = 0 or b = 0. Thus Axiom (ix) holds, and so any field is an integral domain. Familiar examples of fields are the rational numbers ℚ, the real numbers ℝ and the complex numbers ℂ, each with the...
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A Dictionary of Computer Science (7 ed.)
... 1. (data field) An item of data consisting of a number of characters, bytes, words, or codes that are treated together, e.g. to form a number, a name, or an address. A number of fields make a record and the fields may be fixed in length or variable. The term came into use with punched card systems and a field size was defined in terms of a number of columns. 2. Normally a way of designating a portion of a word that has a specific significance or function within that word, e.g. an address field in an instruction word or a character field within a...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland
...George Fields, 1796 in Flaxgrowers List (Tamlaght, Derry); Cornelious Field, 1825 in Tithe Applotment (Menane, Ardmulchan, Meath); Cuthbert Fields, 1826 in Tithe Applotment (Killiney, Dublin). Further information: Some early bearers of this name may have descended from a Norman family, perhaps with land in Field, Staffordshire, who were given estates in Ireland from the late twelfth century onwards. ‘As de la Felde [the name] occurs in medieval Irish records’ ( MacLysaght , p. 108). There is evidence from the 1580s that the English surname Field might...
