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Electromagnetic Field: An area containing electromagnetic energy (electromagnetic radiation).

Home Field Advantage: The benefit a team gets by playing games in the area where it is based, due to fan support, familiarity with its surroundings and the lack of required travel.

Greenfield Operation: A new operation that is built from “the ground up”.

Infield: The diamond-shaped portion of the playing field bordered by the four bases.

Infield Fly: A fair fly ball which can be caught by an infielder with ordinary effort, which first and second, or first, second and third bases are occupied before the second out.

Infield Fly Rule: On the infield fly rule the umpire is to rule whether the ball could ordinarily have been handled by an infielder not by some arbitrary limitation such as the grass, or the base lines. The u . . . View Full Definition

Gas Field: The geographic area that is directly above an underground accumulation of natural gas that is commercially viable.

Free Sound Field: A sound field without acoustic boundaries or where the boundaries are so distant as to cause negligible reflections over the frequency range of audible sound. If the boundaries exist but com . . . View Full Definition

Field Warehouse: A margin account's credit balance. Fictitious credit exists after the proceeds from a short sale are accounted for with respect to the margin requirement. The proceeds from the short sale ar . . . View Full Definition

Field Service Center: A centralized location for a variety of USDA agency field offices. These have been reduced in number from about 3,700 to about 2,600 through closures and consolidations initiated as part of . . . View Full Definition