dictionary help| field | computing dictionary |
<data, database design> An area of a database record, or graphical user interface form, into which a particular item of data is entered.
Example usage: "The telephone number field is not really a numerical field", "Why do we need a four-digit field for the year?".
A database column is the set of all instances of a given field from all records in a table.
(01 Apr 1999)
fiduciary, Fiedler, Carl, Fiedler's myocarditis < Prev | Next > field, field block, field block anaesthesia
Bookmark with:      | word visualiser | Go and visit our forums  |
| field | medical dictionary |
<radiobiology> In physics, any macroscopic quantity which exists (and typically varies) throughout a region of space. Standard examples include Electric and Magnetic fields, velocity flow fields, gravitational fields, etc.
(09 Oct 1997)
Fiedler, Carl, Fiedler's myocarditis, field < Prev | Next > field block, field block anaesthesia, field circus
|
Bookmark with: | word visualiser | Go and visit our forums |
