In his original definition of the relational database, Codd applied the term domain from relational mathematics to mean the column of a relational table.
In Codd's more recent work, he adopts the term attribute for the individual column of a relation.
Codd now clarifies the meaning of domain to be a rule or list establishing the set of values which may occur in any column derived from that domain:
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