locus

Noun
Synonyms: venuelocale

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)Synonyms: venuelocale
  2. the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome
  3. 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”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Locus \Lo"cus\, n.; pl. Loci, & Loca. [L., place. Cf. Allow, Couch, Lieu, Local.]

1.A place; a locality. [1913 Webster]

2.(Math.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law. [1913 Webster]

Plane locus, a locus that is a straight line, or a circle.

Solid locus, a locus that is one of the conic sections. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Locus

A distributed system project supporting transparent access to data through a network-wide file system.

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