(US, sports) The advantage a team enjoys from being on its usual playing field. / (by extension) The advantage anyone enjoys from familiar surroundings or circumstances.

plural of Himalayan field rat

(electronics) a flat panel display technology that uses large-area field electron sources to provide electrons that strike coloured phosphors to produce a colour image. In a general sense, an FED consists of a matrix of cathode ray tubes, each tube producing a single sub-pixel, grouped in threes to form red-green-blue (RGB) pixels.

plural of field emission microscope

(mathematics, algebraic number theory) A field which includes the rational numbers and has finite dimension as a vector space over the rational numbers.

(mathematics) An ordered field which satisfies the axiom of Archimedes.

Communication over very short distances, as by contact or near contact of electronic devices.

(chemistry, physics) A description of various properties of transition element complex compounds that compares the effects of its ligands to that of neighbouring atoms in a crystal

(US) A series of physical tasks, such as walking a straight line, used by police to determine whether a person is under the influence of alcohol.

Alternative form of field applications engineer