locus
a place; locality.
a center or source, as of activities or power:locus of control.
Mathematics. the set of all points, lines, or surfaces that satisfy a given requirement.
Genetics. the chromosomal position of a gene as determined by its linear order relative to the other genes on that chromosome.
Origin of locus
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How to use locus in a sentence
This week, researchers from the DNA testing company 23andMe published a paper in Nature Genetics suggesting that those infected with the virus who possess a certain genetic locus were 11 percent more likely to lose their sense of taste or smell.
Some people still can’t smell or taste a year after COVID | Maggie Galloway | January 18, 2022 | Popular-ScienceThe personas you’ve created can act as the locus of the content topic universe, enabling you to brainstorm themes that are specific to that type of customer.
How to drive the funnel through content marketing and link building | George Nguyen | September 10, 2021 | Search Engine LandFor small to mid-sized rooms at middle-to-mildly loud volumes, bookshelf speakers stand at the locus between price, footprint, and performance, while also presenting an enormous amount of options in the price range, design, and features.
The best bookshelf speakers fill your room with sound, not clutter | Tony Ware | July 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe points in the resulting locus were all the same distance away from the intersection.
Today, conservative media isn’t just a locus of power on the right.
What a scorching John Boehner book excerpt says about today’s GOP | Paul Waldman | April 2, 2021 | Washington Post
With Mitch McConnell soon to be in charge, look for the Senate to become the locus of attacks on campaign finance reform.
The 18th Street Gang was named after the locus of its birth in the Ramparts section.
The Deported L.A. Gangs Behind This Border Kid Crisis | Michael Daly | July 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis question of accountability has interesting links with the theory of “locus of control.”
He despised it for showing war not as an arena of bravery and honor but as a locus of dread and fear.
Did Hollywood Collaborate With Hitler? A New Book Makes Bold Claims. | Christopher Bray | September 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the locus of policy on peace, territory and Palestinians, the picture is worse.
Thus we find even in medival times, Westminster alluded to by monkish writers as a locus terribilis or sacred place.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyEst hic insignis locus, si quis alius est in toto Paulo: proinde diligenter excutere singulas particulas convenit.
Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians | James DenneyThe evolute of a curve is the curve which is the envelope of all its normals or the locus of all its centres of curvature.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousNec mora, condicitur pugn locus, eidemque stata temporis meta prfigitur.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersVnde locus ille hoc nomine Anglico Qualmhul, a strage uidelicet et sepultura interfectorum merito meruit intitulari.
Beowulf | R. W. Chambers
British Dictionary definitions for locus
/ (ˈləʊkəs) /
(in many legal phrases) a place or area, esp the place where something occurred
maths a set of points whose location satisfies or is determined by one or more specified conditions: the locus of points equidistant from a given point is a circle
genetics the position of a particular gene on a chromosome
Origin of locus
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Scientific definitions for locus
[ lō′kəs ]
The set or configuration of all points whose coordinates satisfy a single equation or one or more algebraic conditions.
The position that a given gene occupies on a chromosome.
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Cultural definitions for locus
plur. loci (loh-seye, loh-keye)
In geometry, the set of all points (and only those points) that satisfy certain conditions; these points form a curve or figure. For example, the locus of all points in space one foot from a given point is a sphere having a radius of one foot and having its center at the given point. The locus of all points in a plane one foot from a given point is a circle having a radius of one foot and having its center at the given point.
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