Field may refer to:

Expanses of open ground

* Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes * Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport * Battlefield * Lawn, an area of mowed grass * Meadow, a grassland that is either natural or allowed to grow unmowed and ungrazed * Playing field, 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 Motif (visual arts), 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) * 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