Domain vs. Industry — What's the Difference?

A sphere of knowledge or influence.

A specific branch of manufacturing or trade.

An area or territory owned or controlled by a ruler or government.

Diligent and hard-working activity.

A field in which someone is proficient.

Economic activity concerned with processing raw materials.

A realm of activity or interest.

The production of goods or related services within an economy.

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

Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories

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

Hard work

A discrete region of magnetism in ferromagnetic material.

The sector of an economy made up of manufacturing enterprises

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

A sector of an economy

A distinct region of a complex molecule or structure.

Energetic devotion to a task or an endeavor; diligence

A territory over which rule or control is exercised.

Ongoing work or study associated with a specified subject or figure

A sphere of activity, influence, or knowledge

A collection of artifacts or tools made from a specified material

The set of all possible values of an independent variable of a function.

A standardized tradition of toolmaking associated with a specified tool or culture

An open connected set that contains at least one point.

(Obsolete) Cleverness or skill.

(Computers)A group of networked computers that share a common communications address.

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.

(Physics)Any of numerous contiguous regions in a ferromagnetic material in which the direction of spontaneous magnetization is uniform and different from that in neighboring regions.

Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.

(Biology)Any of three primary divisions of organisms, consisting of the eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea, that rank above a kingdom in taxonomic systems based on similarities of DNA sequences.

Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

(Law)The land of one with paramount title and absolute ownership.

The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

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

Automated production of material goods.

A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

(archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; - opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.

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

Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.

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

Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

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

The people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise;

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

The organized action of making of goods and services for sale;

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

Persevering determination to perform a task;

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

Businesses collectively associated with a particular product.

(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.

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

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

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

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

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

(biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome

Dominion; empire; authority.

The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.

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

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

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.

A connected set of points, also called a region.

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.

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.

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

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.

A particular environment or walk of life.

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

A particular environment or walk of life;

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;

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

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

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

The land governed by a single authority.

A domain is an area of knowledge, activity, or control.

Domain is a broader term that can encompass various industries.

No, some domains are academic or cultural.

No, industries are categorically part of larger domains.

Yes, especially in non-commercialized academic or research areas.

Yes, as fields of knowledge and activity evolve, so do domains.

An industry consists of companies producing similar goods or services.

Yes, depending on its application and services.

Through their area of specialization or study.

Yes, it’s used in a variety of contexts.

In most contexts, yes, it relates to commercial enterprise.

Industries are primary drivers of economic growth and employment.

It helps in specialization and targeting the right market.

Potentially, especially if the industry leads in innovation.

It can, though that usage is less common.