Field (computer science)

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