Antonyms for locus

Grammar : Noun

Spell : loh-kuh s

Phonetic Transcription : ˈloʊ kəs

Definition of locus

Origin : (plural loci), 1715, "locality," from Latin locus "a place, spot, position," from Old Latin stlocus, literally "where something is placed," from PIE root *st(h)el- "to cause to stand, to place." Used by Latin writers for Greek topos. Mathematical sense by 1750.

noun position
noun point

Example sentences :

We had no "locus standi" for complaining of this change and did not complain.
Extract from : « Current History, A Monthly Magazine » by New York Times

The result is that you have no locus standi as a resident in the house.
Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke

The locus of the idea, of the given problem, is not the same in the two processes.
Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot

The nursing situation is the locus of all that is known and done in nursing.
Extract from : « Nursing as Caring » by Anne Boykin

And as I had no army with me, I had no locus standi for sending an ambassador.
Extract from : « The Kath Sarit Sgara » by Somadeva Bhatta

The locus of the documents was to him a mystery and a wonder!
Extract from : « Recollections of a Policeman » by William Russell (aka Thomas Waters)

Now I was a matter of 300 miles' travel from the locus in quo.
Extract from : « British Secret Service During the Great War » by Nicholas Everitt

Locus in quo—The place in which; the place previously 25 occupied.
Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood

This locus again, however, cannot be employed in the negative, for the purpose of refutation.
Extract from : « Aristotle » by George Grote

There is a locus of More and Less, which may be made available in various ways.
Extract from : « Aristotle » by George Grote

Synonyms for locus

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