Domain vs. Kingdom

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

Domainnoun

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

The king ruled his domain harshly.

Kingdomnoun

A realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign.

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.

Kingdomnoun

A realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant.

the kingdom of thoughtthe kingdom of the dead

Domainnoun

A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

Kingdomnoun

(taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).

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Domainnoun

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

Kingdomnoun

a domain in which something is dominant;

the untroubled kingdom of reasona land of make-believethe rise of the realm of cotton in the south

Domainnoun

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

Kingdomnoun

a country with a king as head of state

Domainnoun

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

integral domain

Kingdomnoun

the domain ruled by a king or queen

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Domainnoun

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

Kingdomnoun

a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state

Domainnoun

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

Kingdomnoun

one of seven biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia

Domainnoun

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

Kingdomnoun

a basic group of natural objects

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