Realm
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A Realm is a primary synonym for a world usually other than our own. The word realm is often used in fantasy books or movies. Various theories have been supposed which used realms to explain how time moves.
- Realm is also an old term still used as an alternative word for kingdom. It is particularly used for those states whose name includes the word Kingdom (for example, the United Kingdom), to avoid clumsy repetition of the word in a sentence. (For example, "The Queen's realm, the United Kingdom...".)
It frequently used to refer to territories "under" a monarch, yet not a physical part of his or her "kingdom"; for example, the various Commonwealth Realms under the British crown, in Realm of Sweden, or to Holstein that until the Second War on Schleswig was an important part of the Danish king's realm stretching to the border of Hamburg, although not a part of the Danish kingdom. Similarly, the Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau are considered parts of the Realm of New Zealand, though they are not part of New Zealand proper. Likewise, the Faroe Islands and Greenland remain parts of the Danish Realm.
- In Java EE realm terms a database containing users, usergroups and their roles (sets of permissions to access server-resources). Optionally a realm manages user-passwords, certificates and authentication logic. Also a realm can refer to a web domain.
- Gaming - in the MMORPG World of Warcraft the term realm is used interchangeably with a computer gaming server (some MMORPG’s use the term Shard to describe a gaming server.)
- The Realm was the name of a BBS and underground community of computer hackers based in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980s. Its most notable members were Phoenix, The Force and Electron, who were both arrested by the Australian Federal Police in April 1990 in Australia's first major computer hacker bust.