The word field is mostly related to an area of land that still has certain characteristics that make it rural. In this space there are no buildings, so they are used for plantationsor care of the cattle, being common to observe some fields covered with flowers or animals grazing in its extension. However, it can also be a land that, previously, was the container of holes that housed large amounts of agricultural products. This was one of the ways in which the settlers, from previous times, lived together and founded a society around the elements that were available to them, a fact that is repeated today, but influenced by the arrival of the technological age that has facilitated the realization of many rustic processes necessary to live in this area.
In areas like sports, the term is more related to the establishments in which the games are played. Baseball field, soccer or tennis, are the most common expressions to refer to those places. Similarly, to refer to the different elements related to legality, the phrase "legal field" is often used as a call to this, but from a generalized point of view. Concentration camps, in the same way, are those places where many people settle for different purposes; During World War II the phrase was more related to the death camps, places where Jewish people were sent to be mass murdered.
In physics, for its part, the field is usually seen as a force that surrounds a body and modifies it, in some way, in its chemical or physical structure. This means that it is seen more as something that influences in a certain way, an object. An example of this is the gravitational field, defined as a set of forces that allow gravity to be possible. In mathematics, on the other hand, the word is more used to determine numerical sets or vector calculations. In ophthalmology, likewise, the visual field is known as the amount of space that can be perceived by the eye under normal or modified conditions.
