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Field

  [feeld]
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1. Cyrus West, 1819–92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
2. David Dudley, Jr., 1805–94, U.S. jurist (brother of Cyrus West and Stephen Johnson Field).
3. Erastus Salisbury, 1805–1900, U.S. painter.
4. Eugene, 1850–95, U.S. poet and journalist.
5. John, 1782–1837, Irish pianist and composer.
6. Marshall, 1834–1906, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
7. Stephen Johnson, 1816–99, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1863–97 (brother of Cyrus West and David Dudley Field).
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Field   (fēld)   
American merchant and financier who planned and oversaw the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable (completed 1866).
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Main Entry: field
Pronunciation: 'fE(&)ld
Function: noun
1 : an area or division of an activity field>
2 : a complex of forces that serve as causative agents in human behavior
3 a : a region of embryonic tissue potentially capable of a particular type ofdifferentiation field> b : a region or space in which a given effect (as magnetism) exists
4 a : an area that is perceived or underobservation; especially : the area visible through the lens of an optical instrument —see VISUAL FIELD b : the site of a surgical operation
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field   (fēld)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. A distribution in a region of space of the strength and direction of a force, such as the electrostatic force near an electrically charged object, that would act on a body at any given point in that region. See also electric field, magnetic field.

  2. The region whose image is visible to the eye or accessible to an optical instrument.

  3. A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity (0) form a group under multiplication. The set of all rational numbers is a field.

    1. In a database, a space for a single item of information contained in a record.

    2. An interface element in a graphical user interface that accepts the input of text.


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Cyrus West Field

U.S. financier noted for the success of the first transatlantic cable. He was the younger brother of the law reformer David Dudley Field and of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field

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