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Type Words
Synonyms locale, venue
Type of scene
Type Words
Type of set


the locus of points equidistant from a given point is a circle.
Type Words
Type of site, situation

Examples of locus

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A rice quantitative trait locus for salt tolerance encodes a sodium transporter.
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Tibet may again become the locus of a serious dispute between China and America.
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Connaught Place, the central business locus of New Delhi, is named for the Duke.
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The Planckian locus is shown with colour temperatures labeled in degrees Kelvin.
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The locus of these points would not be a supply curve in any conventional sense.
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The specific location of a DNA sequence within a chromosome is known as a locus.
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They are controlled by alleles at one locus, with the carbonaria being dominant.
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The primary locus of infection was a program that ran every time Windows booted.
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The Notch2 locus highly predicts survival in subgroups of brain tumor patients.
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More examples
  • Venue: the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
  • The specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome
  • The set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions; "the locus of points equidistant from a given point is a circle"
  • Locus is a fictional mutant villainess in the Marvel Comics universe. She was first introduced as a member of the Mutant Liberation Front in the comic title X-Force under the leadership of Reignfire. She has been portrayed inconsistently with a variety of ethnic features, prior to her death.
  • In the fields of genetics and evolutionary computation, a locus (plural loci) is the specific location of a gene or DNA sequence on a chromosome. A variant of the DNA sequence at a given locus is called an allele. The ordered list of loci known for a particular genome is called a genetic map. ...
  • Locus, subtitled "The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field," is published monthly in Oakland, CA. It reports on the science fiction and fantasy writing industry, including comprehensive listings of new books published in the field. ...
  • LOCUS was a distributed operating system developed at UCLA during the 1980s. It was notable for providing an early implementation of the single-system image idea, where a cluster of machines appeared to be one larger machine.
  • Inventio is the system or method used for the discovery of arguments in Western rhetoric and comes from the Latin word, meaning "invention" or "discovery". Inventio is the central, indispensable canon of rhetoric, and traditionally means a systematic search for arguments (Glenn and Goldthwaite 151).
  • (Loci (band)) Loci are an alt-rock band from Bristol, United Kingdom. Their line-up consists of Ben Rosser (Guitars, vocals), Janet Jauregui (bass, backing vocals) and Tim Thorne (drums). ...