Field name

Field name

Field name can mean a number of different things:
*In computer science, a field name identifies a field in a database record or other data structure.
*In the United Kingdom, each field has a field name...
*In any field science, "field name" refers to the common name and contrasts with the scientific name. For example, in geology "potassium aluminum silicate" is a scientific name, while "microcline" is the field name for a type of feldspar. In biology "hippocampus bargibanti" is a scientific name and "pygmy seahorse" is a field name for a type of fish. Many of the sciences that classify natural phenomena will have scientific, or "laboratory," names and field names.


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