(US, sports) The advantage a team enjoys from being on its usual playing field. / (by extension) The advantage anyone enjoys from familiar surroundings or circumstances.

plural of Himalayan field rat

(idiomatic) The persuasive ability of a leader or entrepreneur, especially in misleading or convincing others in order to promote a product or service.

(electronics) a flat panel display technology that uses large-area field electron sources to provide electrons that strike coloured phosphors to produce a colour image. In a general sense, an FED consists of a matrix of cathode ray tubes, each tube producing a single sub-pixel, grouped in threes to form red-green-blue (RGB) pixels.

A rat that lives in the Himalayas and southeast Asia; taxonomic name Rattus nitidus.

plural of field emission microscope

(mathematics, algebraic number theory) A field which includes the rational numbers and has finite dimension as a vector space over the rational numbers.

Communication over very short distances, as by contact or near contact of electronic devices.

(mathematics) An ordered field which satisfies the axiom of Archimedes.

plural of open-field test