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Field (computer science) - Definition and Overview

In computer science, data that has several parts can be divided into fields. For example, a computer may represent today's date as three distinct fields: the day, the month, the year.

Programming languages usually have a record data type to represent composite data types as a series of fields.

Relational databases arrange data as sets of database records. Each record consists of several fields.

See Also

class variable, instance variable, key field, record, n-tuple

Example Usage of (computer

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mandahoofs: @ahhpooh414 I LOVE my laptop! But I also love my actual computer too!
yogeshmalik: Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ,the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. #quote #wisdom #funny
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