Field may refer to:

Expanses of open ground

Field (agriculture) In agriculture, a field is an area of land, enclosed or otherwise, used for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops or as a paddock or other enclosure for livestock. A field may also be an area left to lie fallow or as arable land. Many ...

, an area of land used for agricultural purposes * Airfield, an

aerodrome An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for publ ...

that lacks the infrastructure of an airport *

Battlefield A battlefield, battleground, or field of battle is the location of a present or historic battle involving ground warfare. It is commonly understood to be limited to the point of contact between opposing forces, though battles may involve troops ...

Lawn A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawnmower (or sometimes grazing animals) and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes. ...

, an area of mowed grass *

Meadow A meadow ( ) is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non- woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character. Meadows may be naturally occurring or arti ...

, a grassland that is either natural or allowed to grow unmowed and ungrazed *

Playing field Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functio ...

, used for sports or games

Arts and media

* In decorative art, the main area of a decorated zone, often contained within a border, often the background for motifs ** Field (heraldry), the background of a shield ** In flag terminology, the background of a flag * Field (magazine), ''FIELD'' (magazine), a literary magazine published by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio * Field (sculpture), ''Field'' (sculpture), by Anthony Gormley

Organizations

* Field department, the division of a political campaign tasked with organizing local volunteers and directly contacting voters * Field Enterprises, a defunct private holding company ** Field Communications, a division of Field Enterprises * Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago

People

* Field (surname) * Field Cate (born 1997), American child actor

Places

* Field, British Columbia, Canada * Field, Kentucky, United States * Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States * Field, Ontario, Canada * Field, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom * Field, South Australia * Field Hill, British Columbia, Canada * Field Island, Nunavut, Canada * Mount Field (disambiguation), mountains in Canada, the United States, Australia and Antarctica

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

* Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (e.g., database fields) * Column (database), sometimes referred to as 'field', with various meanings * Field-programmability, an electronic device's capability of being reprogrammed with new logic

Geology

* Field (mineral deposit), a mineral deposit containing valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration * Polje or karst field, a characteristic landform in karst topography

Mathematics

* Field (mathematics), type of algebraic structure ** Number field, specific type of the above algebraic structure * Scalar field, assignment of a scalar to each point in a mathematical space * Tensor field, assignment of a tensor to each point in a mathematical space * Vector field, assignment of a vector to each point in a mathematical space * Field of sets, a mathematical structure of sets in an abstract space * Field of a Domain of a relation, binary relation, union of its domain and its range

Optics

* Field of view, the area of a view imaged by a lens ** Visual field, the part of the field of view which can be perceived by the eye's retina ** Depth of field, the distance from before to beyond the subject that appears to be in focus (and likewise, field, in the context of depth, is the portion of a scene for which objects within its range are or would be in focus)

Physics

* Field (physics), a mathematical construct for analysis of remote effects ** Electric field, term in physics to describe the energy that surrounds electrically charged particles ** Magnetic field, force produced by moving electric charges ** Electromagnetic field, combination of an electric field and magnetic field ** Gravitational field, a representation of the combined effects of remote masses on a test particle at each point

Sociology

* Field (Bourdieu), a sociological term coined by Pierre Bourdieu to describe the system of objective relations constituted by various species of capital * Sexual field, the systems of objective relations within collective sexual life

Other uses in science and technology

* Field (geography), a spatially dependent variable * Field (video), one half of a frame in an interlaced display * Field coil, of an electric motor or generator * Field experiment * Field magnet, a magnet used to produce a magnetic field * Field research or fieldwork, the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting * Field of heliostats, an assembly of heliostats acting together

Sports

* Pitch (sports field)

Other uses

* Field of study, a subdivision of an academic discipline * Field of use, permissible operation by the licensee of a patent * Track and field, a group of sports