Domain vs. Demesne

Domain vs. Demesne — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Domain and Demesne

Domainnoun

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

The king ruled his domain harshly.

Demesnenoun

A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor’s own use.

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.

Demesnenoun

A region or area; a domain.

Domainnoun

A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

Demesnenoun

extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;

the family owned a large estate on Long Island
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Domainnoun

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

Demesnenoun

territory over which rule or control is exercised;

his domain extended into Europehe made it the law of the land

Domainnoun

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

Domainnoun

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

integral domain

Domainnoun

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

Domainnoun

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

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Domainnoun

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

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.

Domainnoun

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

Domainnoun

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

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

a particular environment or walk of life;

his social sphere is limitedit was a closed area of employmenthe's out of my orbit

Domainnoun

territory over which rule or control is exercised;

his domain extended into Europehe 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 discoursehere we enter the region of opinionthe realm of the occult