PUBLIC DOMAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public domain mean? 

• PUBLIC DOMAIN (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC DOMAIN has 1 sense:

1. property rights that are held by the public at large

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC DOMAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLIC DOMAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Property rights that are held by the public at large

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("public domain" is a kind of...):

property right (the legal right of ownership)

 Context examples 

They share high-quality, arrayed cDNA libraries and place sequence, map, and expression data on the clones in these arrays into the public domain.

(Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and their Expression Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

A public domain, binary file format that is used to record synchronized 3D and analog motion capture data.

(C3D Format, NCI Thesaurus)