a region having specific characteristics or containing certain types of plants or animals
5. Australian and New Zealand
a park or recreation reserve maintained by a public authority, often the government
6. law
the absolute ownership and right to dispose of land
See also demesne, eminent domain
7. mathematics
a.
the set of values of the independent variable of a function for which the functional value exists
the domain of sin x is all real numbers
Compare range (sense 8a)
b.
any open set containing at least one point
8. logic another term for universe of discourse
domain of quantification
9. philosophy
range of significance (esp in the phrase domain of definition)
10. Also called: magnetic domain physics
one of the regions in a ferromagnetic solid in which all the atoms have their magnetic moments aligned in the same direction
11. computing
a group of computers, functioning and administered as a unit, that are identified by sharing the same domain name on the internet
12. Also called: superkingdom biology
the highest level of classification of living organisms. Three domains are recognized: Archaea (see archaean), Bacteria (see bacteria), and Eukarya (see eukaryote)
13. biochemistry
a structurally compact portion of a protein molecule
Word origin
C17: from French domaine, from Latin dominium property, from dominus lord
magnetic domain in American English
noun
a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned withone another because of interactions between molecules or atoms
Word origin
[1965–70]
Examples of 'magnetic domain' in a sentence
magnetic domain
The magnetic domain imaging showed domain narrowing after coating.
Vishu Goel, Philip Anderson, Jeremy Hall, Fiona Robinson, Siva Bohm 2016, 'CrAlN coating to enhance the power loss and magnetostriction in grain oriented electricalsteel', AIP Advanceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4944340. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Kerr effect microscope with magnetic field applied was used to investigate magnetic domain structure.
Hiroaki Machida, Teruhiko Fujiwara, Risako Kamada, Yuji Morimoto, Masaaki Takezawa 2017, 'The high squareness Sm-Co magnet having Hcb=10.6 kOe at 150°C', AIP Advanceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4976334. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Magnetic domain walls can act as reconfigurable antennas for spin wave and elastic wave generation.
Rasmus B. Holländer, Cai Müller, Julius Schmalz, Martina Gerken, Jeffrey McCord 2018, 'Magnetic domain walls as broadband spin wave and elastic magnetisation wave emitters',Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-018-31689-8. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The magnetic domain structure of the magnet subjected to an optimum heat treatment has been studied.
K. Skotnicová, G. S. Burkhanov, Y. S. Koshkid'ko, D. Růžička, T. Čegan, J. Cwik, N.B. Kolchugina, A. A. Lukin, O. Životský, K. Hrabovská 2016, 'Influence of heat treatment on the structural and magnetic characteristics of (NdxPr1-x)2Fe14B-basedmagnetic material for low-temperature application', Metalurgijahttp://hrcak.srce.hr/file/231946. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Changes in the magnetostriction, crystal orientation, magnetization, and magnetic domain of the solidified alloys were investigated.
Tie Liu, Meng Dong, Pengfei Gao, Yubao Xiao, Yi Yuan, Qiang Wang 2018, 'Effect of cooling rate on magnetic domain structure and magnetic properties of Tb0.27Dy0.73Fe1.95alloys solidified in high magnetic field', AIP Advanceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5004020. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Driven by alternating homogeneous magnetic fields the magnetic domain walls act as coherent magnetisation wave sources.
Rasmus B. Holländer, Cai Müller, Julius Schmalz, Martina Gerken, Jeffrey McCord 2018, 'Magnetic domain walls as broadband spin wave and elastic magnetisation wave emitters',Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-018-31689-8. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Microstructures of magnetic materials, including defects and crystallographic orientations, are known to strongly influence magnetic domain structures.
Ke Xu, Daniel K. Schreiber, Yulan Li, Bradley R. Johnson, John McCloy 2017, 'Effect of defects, magnetocrystalline anisotropy, and shape anisotropy on magneticstructure of iron thin films by magnetic force microscopy', AIP Advanceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4976580. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The size effect not only merges the nanorods into larger crystals but also reduces interior magnetic domain sizes.
Yung-Hsiang Tung, Chun-Chuen Yang, Ting-Wei Hsu, Cheng-Wei Kao, Yang Yuan Chen 2017, 'Size effects on magnetic property of multiferroic DyMn2O5 nanorods', AIP Advanceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977876. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)