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Definition of Locus

1. Noun. The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting).

2. Noun. The specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome.

3. Noun. 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"

Definition of Locus

1. n. A place; a locality.

Definition of Locus

1. Noun. A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition. ¹

3. Noun. (genetics) A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Locus

1. a place [n LOCI or LOCA]

Medical Definition of Locus

1. The site in a linkage map or on a chromosome where the gene for a particular trait is located. Any one of the alleles of a gene may be present at this site. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Locus

loculated loculation loculation syndrome locule loculed locules loculi loculicidal loculous loculus

locum locum tenant locum tenens locum tenentes locums locus (current term) locus ceruleus locus cinereus locus coeruleus locus control region

locus ferrugineus locus minoris resistentiae locus niger locus of control locus of infection locus perforatus anticus locus perforatus posticus locust locust bean

Literary usage of Locus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"But the equations of the loci taken together indicate a locus which is the region (in ... (1) Let a locus which is of one dimension less than a region or ..."

2. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1879)
"The locus is therefore a conic. Ex. 13. Find the locus of the intersection of the ... The sum of the remaining two sides is given j find the locus of the ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"3G.49 due to William A. Lash, dated October 25, 1806; the land described therein being a tract of 77 acres adjoining the locus in quo, and tue undivided ..."

4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"To a surface ai locus of points corresponds, in the same manner, a surface as envelope of planes; and to a curve in space as locus of points corresponds a ..."

5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"'in excess of tne country rock as to differenti- locus SIGILLI (Lat). The place of the , characteristics of the district; id. ..."

6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Loen* Delicti. The place where a crime was committed. locus In qno ... 17)— ie no means whereby Isaac could brook his bargain with Jacob. locus ..."

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