FIELD OF STUDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field of study mean? 

• FIELD OF STUDY (noun)
  The noun FIELD OF STUDY has 1 sense:

1. a branch of knowledge

  Familiarity information: FIELD OF STUDY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD OF STUDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A branch of knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field

Context example:

anthropology is the study of human beings

Hypernyms ("field of study" is a kind of...):

domain; knowledge base; knowledge domain (the content of a particular field of knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field of study"):

landscape architecture (the art, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land and the design of large man-made constructs)

theogony (the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods)

protology (the study of origins and first things)

numerology (the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs)

graphology (the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition))

escapology (the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment))

military science (the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare)

divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

futuristics; futurology (the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions)

applied science; engineering; engineering science; technology (the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems)

occultism (the study of the supernatural)

architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

ology (an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge)

bibliotics (the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity)

allometry (the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole)

genealogy (the study or investigation of ancestry and family history)

frontier (an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development)

major (the principal field of study of a student at a university)

communication theory; communications (the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.))

 Context examples 

The field of study concerned with the study of food-borne microorganisms.

(Food Microbiology, NCI Thesaurus)

Facilities designated Cancer Centers generally conduct a combination of basic, population sciences, and clinical research, and are encouraged to stimulate collaborative research involving more than one field of study.

(Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Biological field of study concerned with the analysis of similarities and differences in specific characteristics between different diseases.

(Comparative Pathology, NCI Thesaurus)

Biological field of study concerned with the analysis of similarities and differences in specific traits between different species.

(Comparative Biology, NCI Thesaurus)

The field of study concerned with the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics.

(Philosophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Interdisciplinary field of study in which theoretical, computational, or mathematical research is applied to or motivated by biology.

(Mathematical Biology, NCI Thesaurus)

The Doctor of Philosophy degree is the highest academic degree awarded in recognition of creative scholarship and research in a field of study.

(Doctor of Philosophy, NCI Thesaurus)

These documents are varied in focus and are often defined by the field of study or by the regulatory application requirements of the region or Regulatory Authority (e.g., Integrated Summary of Safety, Pharmacokinetics Written Summary).

(Document, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)