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Synonyms for locus

Grammar : Noun
Spell : loh-kuh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˈloʊ kəs

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Définition 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

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