h. fielding

noun

Henry, 1707–54, English novelist, dramatist, and essayist.

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Fielding (ˈfiːldɪŋ)

—n
	Henry. 1707--54, English novelist and dramatist, noted particularly for his picaresque novel Tom Jones (1749) and for Joseph Andrews (1742), which starts as a parody of Richardson's Pamela: also noted as an enlightened magistrate and a founder of the Bow Street runners (1749)

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Word Origin & History

fielding

1823 in cricket (later baseball), noun from field (v.); see field (n.).

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field

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