domain

noun

OPAL W

/dəˈmeɪn/, /dəʊˈmeɪn/

/dəʊˈmeɪn/

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an area of knowledge or activity; especially one that somebody is responsible for（知识、活动的）领域，范围，范畴
- Financial matters are her domain.财务问题是她的专业领域。
- Physics used to be very much a male domain.物理学曾在很大程度上是男性占据的领域。
- things that happen outside the domain of the home发生在家庭以外的事情
see also public domain
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- private
- public
- Internet
- …
domain + noun
- name
- registration
preposition
- in a/the domain
- within a/the domain
- outside a/the domain
- …
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(computing计算机) a set of websites on the internet that end with the same group of letters, for example ‘.com’, ‘.org’域；论域；定义域
- top-level domains顶级域
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Topics Phones, email and the internetc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- private
- public
- Internet
- …
domain + noun
- name
- registration
preposition
- in a/the domain
- within a/the domain
- outside a/the domain
- …
See full entry
lands owned or ruled by a particular person, government, etc., especially in the past（尤指旧时个人、国家等所拥有或统治的）领土，领地，势力范围
- The Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains.香料群岛曾是西班牙的领地。
see also eminent domain
(mathematics数学) the range of possible values of a particular variable区域；定义域Topics Maths and measurementc2

Word Originlate Middle English (denoting heritable or landed property): from French domaine, alteration (by association with Latin dominus ‘lord’) of Old French demeine ‘belonging to a lord’, from Latin dominicus, from dominus ‘lord, master’.