Field (computer science)
From Academic Kids
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 (aka rows). Each record consists of several fields (aka columns).
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See also
class variable, instance variable, key field, record, n-tuple
