plural of field mouse

(rare) A tent. / (Canada, US) A large building for indoor sports, particularly at colleges. / (Canada, US) A building for equipment storage and changing rooms (locker rooms) by an outdoor sports field.

(cricket, in a one-day match) A line, marked on the field, consisting of two semicircles around each wicket joined by parallel lines, outside of which there may be no more than two fielders

plural of field effect

Synonym of airfield

plural of field hand

(acoustics) The region within a distance a fraction of a wavelength from a sound source. Accordingly, the outer boundary of the near-field region is closer for high-pitched sound than for low-pitched sound.

(software, object-oriented programming) Synonym of member variable

(physics) A theoretical field associated with electroweak symmetry breaking, the quantum of which is the Higgs boson; interaction with this field is hypothesised to give elementary particles their mass.

(mathematics) Any of the several axioms that an object should meet to be considered a mathematical field.