Field

A field is a variable that is a member of a class and may be part of an object.

Related concepts:  VariableMemberClassObject

Closest Wikipedia entry:  Field (computer science) — In computer science, data that has several parts, known as a record, can be divided into fields (data fields). Relational databases arrange data as sets of database records, so called rows. Each record consists of several fields; the fields of all records form the columns.

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