Domain vs. Dominion

Domainnoun

A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

‘The king ruled his domain harshly.’;

Dominionnoun

Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.

Domainnoun

A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

‘Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.’; ‘His domain is English history.’;

Dominionnoun

predominance; ascendancy

Domainnoun

A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

Dominionnoun

A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.

‘the dominions of a king’; ‘the dominion of the passions’;

Domainnoun

(mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.

Dominionnoun

An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones.

Domainnoun

The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.

Dominionnoun

Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

‘I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.’; ‘To choose between dominion or slavery.’;

Domainnoun

(mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

‘integral domain’;

Dominionnoun

Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.

‘Objects placed foremost ought . . . have dominion over things confused and transient.’;

Domainnoun

An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.

Dominionnoun

That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

Domainnoun

Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

Dominionnoun

A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.

‘By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers.’;

Domainnoun

A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.

Dominionnoun

dominance or power through legal authority;

‘France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa’; ‘the rule of Caesar’;

Domainnoun

(computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

Dominionnoun

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

Domainnoun

(computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.

Dominionnoun

one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

Domainnoun

(physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.

Dominion

The word Dominion was used from 1907 to 1948 to refer to one of several self-governing nations of the British Empire. was formally accorded to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, and the Irish Free State at the 1926 Imperial Conference to designate "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations”.

‘Dominion status’;

Domainnoun

(computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.

Domainnoun

(data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.

Domainnoun

(taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.

Domainnoun

(biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function.

Domainnoun

Dominion; empire; authority.

Domainnoun

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.’; ‘The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges.’;

Domainnoun

Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.

Domainnoun

Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.

Domainnoun

the set of values which the independent variable of a function may take. Contrasted to range, which is the set of values taken by the dependent variable.

Domainnoun

a connected set of points, also called a region.

Domainnoun

a region within a ferromagnetic material, composed of a number of atoms whose magnetic poles are pointed in the same direction, and which may move together in a coordinated manner when disturbed, as by heating. The direction of polarity of adjacent domains may be different, but may be aligned by a strong external magnetic field.

Domainnoun

an address within the internet computer network, which may be a single computer, a network of computers, or one of a number of accounts on a multiuser computer. The domain specifies the location (host computer) to which communications on the internet are directed. Each domain has a corresponding 32-bit number usually represented by four numbers separated by periods, as 128.32.282.56. Each domain may also have an alphabetical name, usually composed of a name plus an extension separated by a period, as worldsoul.org; the alphabetical name is referred to as a domain name.

Domainnoun

the three-dimensional structure within an immunoglobulin which is formed by one of the homology regions of a heavy or light chain.

Domainnoun

the field of knowledge, expertise, or interest of a person; as, he had a limited domain of discourse; I can't comment on that, it's outside my domain.

Domainnoun

a particular environment or walk of life.

Domainnoun

people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest.

Domainnoun

a particular environment or walk of life;

‘his social sphere is limited’; ‘it was a closed area of employment’; ‘he's out of my orbit’;

Domainnoun

territory over which rule or control is exercised;

‘his domain extended into Europe’; ‘he made it the law of the land’;

Domainnoun

the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined

Domainnoun

people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest;

‘the Western world’;

Domainnoun

a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;

‘it was a limited domain of discourse’; ‘here we enter the region of opinion’; ‘the realm of the occult’;

Domainnoun

an area of territory owned or controlled by a particular ruler or government

‘the French domains of the Plantagenets’;

Domainnoun

a specified sphere of activity or knowledge

‘the country's isolation in the domain of sport’;

Domainnoun

a distinct subset of the Internet with addresses sharing a common suffix or under the control of a particular organization or individual.

Domainnoun

a discrete region of magnetism in ferromagnetic material.

Domainnoun

the set of possible values of the independent variable or variables of a function.

Domainnoun

a distinct region of a complex molecule or structure.