different between domain vs department

English

Etymology

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??me?n/, /d???me?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /do??me?n/, /d??me?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

domain (plural domains)

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

   The king ruled his domain harshly.
2. 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.

3. A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
4. (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
5. (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
6. (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

   Hyponym: integral domain

7. (mathematics, topology, mathematical analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.
8. (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.
   • 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium [3]

     Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

9. (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.
10. (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.
11. (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
12. (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
13. (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
14. (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.

    • A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints.

15. (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system, one of the taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.
16. (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function; the equivalent section of a chromosome

Usage notes

• (collection of information): Used in a context in which domain name services, or kindred services, are managed in a fashion that is integrated with the management of other computer and network related information.
• (collection of computers): Used in the same context as the collection of information domain sense.

Synonyms

• (geographic area): demesne
• (where a function is defined): domain of definition
• (collection of DNS names): domain name, hostname

Antonyms

• (domain of definition of a function): range
• (domain of definition of a function): codomain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Domain (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• domain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• domain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Amidon, Imonda, daimon, domina

Indonesian

Etymology

From English domain, from Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). Doublet of dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?o?ma?n]
• Hyphenation: do?ma?in

Noun

domain (plural domain-domain, first-person possessive domainku, second-person possessive domainmu, third-person possessive domainnya)

1. domain

   Synonyms: daerah, ranah, wilayah

Further reading

• “domain” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Noun

domain m (plural domains)

1. (Internet) domain

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French département.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??p??tm(?)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??p??tm?nt/
• Hyphenation: de?part?ment

Noun

department (plural departments)

1. A part, portion, or subdivision.
2. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
3. A specified aspect or quality.

   The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. A subdivision of an organization.
   1. (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government

      the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department

   2. (in a university) One of the divisions of instructions

      the physics department; the gender studies department

5. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin 2003, p. 427:

     The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.

6. (historical) A military subdivision of a country

7. (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

     sudden 'departments from one extreame to another

Synonyms

• (distinct course): province, specialty
• (division of executive government): ministry

Derived terms

• departmental
• departmentally
• Department of Redundancy Department
• department store
• fire department
• interdepartmental
• police department
• state department
• trouser department

Translations

See also

• province
• state