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We found 62 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word locus:
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General (29 matching dictionaries)

 1.  locus: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
 2.  locus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
 3.  locus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
 4.  locus: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
 5.  locus: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
 6.  Locus, locus: Wordnik [home, info]
 7.  locus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
 8.  locus: Wiktionary [home, info]
 9.  locus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
 10. locus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
 11. locus: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
 12. locus: Dictionary.com [home, info]
 13. locus: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
 14. locus: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
 15. LOCUS (operating system), Locus (comics), Locus (disambiguation), Locus
     (genetics), Locus (magazine), Locus (mathematics), Locus (rhetoric), Locus
     (video game), Locus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
 16. Locus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
 17. locus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
 18. locus: Rhymezone [home, info]
 19. Locus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
 20. locus: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
 21. Locus: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
 22. locus: Free Dictionary [home, info]
 23. locus: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
 24. locus: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
 25. locus: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
 26. locus: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
 27. locus: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]


Art (1 matching dictionary)

 28. Locus: Lexicon of Linguistics [home, info]


Business (8 matching dictionaries)

 29. Locus: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
 30. locus: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
 31. Locus: Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info]
 32. locus: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
 33. locus: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
 34. locus: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
 35. LOCUS: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
 36. locus: Legal dictionary [home, info]


Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

 37. Locus: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
 38. locus: Encyclopedia [home, info]


Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)

 39. Locus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [home, info]
 40. Locus, locus: online medical dictionary [home, info]
 41. Locus: Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms [home, info]
 42. Locus: Hepatitis C Information Central [home, info]
 43. locus: Dictionary of Cancer Terms [home, info]
 44. Locus (loci): Microbial Genetics Glossary [home, info]
 45. locus: Medical dictionary [home, info]
 46. Locus: Drug Medical Dictionary [home, info]


Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

 47. LOCUS, LOCUS, LOCUS: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
     [home, info]
 48. LOCUS: Acronym Finder [home, info]


Science (11 matching dictionaries)

 49. locus: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
 50. Locus: A Glossary of Mathematical Terms [home, info]
 51. Locus (plural, loci): Drug Discovery and Development [home, info]
 52. Locus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
 53. locus: Botanical Terms [home, info]
 54. Locus (pl. loci): DOE Genome Glossary [home, info]
 55. locus: MATH SPOKEN HERE! [home, info]
 56. locus: Glossary of Genetic Terms [home, info]
 57. locus: Evolution Glossary [home, info]
 58. locus, locus: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]
 59. Locus (plural = loci): AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY [home,
     info]


Slang (1 matching dictionary)

 60. locus: Urban Dictionary [home, info]


(Note: See loci for more definitions.)


Quick definitions from Macmillan (
locus
)



noun
▸
the particular place or situation in which something exists or takes place
more...
▸
in mathematics, the set of points described by a particular rule or equation
more...
▸
the position of a gene on a chromosome
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Quick definitions from Wiktionary (locus)

▸ 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")
▸ noun:  the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome
▸ noun:  the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
▸ name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #46546)
▸ noun:  A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a
crime.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given
equation or condition.
▸ noun:  (genetics) A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one
or more genes.
▸ noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A passage in writing, especially in a
collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.


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▸ Also see loci






↻From "Skin" by 16volt:


> Out of focus
> Wanting pith
> Higher locus
> Bowers of bliss

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1 of 12 verses




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Found in concept groups:  Location or place Analytical Geometry Molecular
biology Academic citation



Phrases that include locus:   locus caeruleus, quantitative trait locus, genetic
locus, locus contractus, root locus, more...

Words similar to locus:   locale, loci, venue, place, site, more...



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Mentions of the word locus:
Used in: All Books Wikipedia Quotes Pop music Hip hop
Used as: All Noun Name

...described a number of genome alterations revealed through her studies of the
"Dissociation" locus, the first mobile genetic element she identified.
—Barbara McClintock  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


It has been shown that to only two lines there corresponds a plane locus.
—Pappus of Alexandria  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Indeed for many years this is likely to remain the locus classicus for the
economic analysis of customs-union problems.
—James Meade  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...development promises to fundamentally alter future geographies of mind and
being by shifting the locus of causality from an exalted Godhead to the domain
of Nature.
—Pandeism  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


At this particular moment in space and time, this particular locus, the overall
awareness of the entire continuum happens to believe it is Alan Moore.
—Self  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the
important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man.
—International relations  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Ancient loanwords point to a locus along the desert trajectory, not particularly
close to Mesopotamia and probably far out in the...
—Johanna Nichols  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


As the Locus of Memory: A Looming Paradigm Shift?".
—Memory  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The history of Yiddish, with its roots in central Europe and locus for centuries
in Eastern Europe, is evident in its literature.
—Yiddish literature  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Every such "organized inquiry" must have its own particular social locus.
—John Dewey  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Newton regarded the curve formula 1 as the locus of the intersection of two
moving lines, one vertical and the other horizontal.
—History of calculus  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The locus of the IE spread was therefore somewhere in the vicinity of ancient
Bactria-Sogdiana.
—Johanna Nichols  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


If the self, as I suggest, is a relational entity, it cannot have a locus in the
world of experiential objects.
—Ernst von Glasersfeld  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


In the span of twelve years, the concentration camp metamorphosed from a locus
of terror into a universe of horror.
—Concentration camp  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


At least eight important consequences have followed from that epochal change in
the locus of democracy.
—Democracy and Its Critics  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


I understood the point of it was to transpose the locus of authority from the
works to the discussion of the works.
—Alex Miller (writer)  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


A mind is thus a locus of subjectivity, a thing it is like something to be
(Farrell, 1950, Nagel, 1974).
—Daniel Dennett  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The placement of the locus specifically in the vicinity of Bactria-Sogdiana is
justified in ...
—Johanna Nichols  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


These principles make it possible to pinpoint the locus in space more or less
accurately even for a language family as old as IE.
—Indo-European languages  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Given several straight lines in a plane, to find the locus of a point such that
the perpendiculars.
—La Géométrie  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


This is why the Pontic steppe is an unlikely locus for the PIE spread. ...
—Johanna Nichols  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Both groups have made clear the locus of liberalism's rhetoric of small business
and family farm.
—C. Wright Mills  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


When a child is born, the locus of one’s hopes...
—Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


She received the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award,
and was made a Grandmaster of Science Fiction in 2003.
—Ursula K. Le Guin  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The hereditary ataxias are categorized by mode of inheritance and causative gene
or chromosomal locus.
—Spinocerebellar ataxia  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...by a mutant gene that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait, which is
determined by a white locus.
—Tiger  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The variation in sensitivity is determined by two common alleles at the TAS2R38
locus.
—Taste  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Lactase is encoded by a single genetic locus on chromosome 2.
—Lactase  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


It is a mutation of gene PDE6C, located on chromosome locus 10, 10q24.
—Achromatopsia  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Air that is responsible for the silencing of neighbouring genes at the Igf2r
locus on the paternal chromosome.
—Long non-coding RNA  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...of a species live in different environments that select for different alleles
at a particular locus.
—Genetic diversity  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Bedlingtons carry what is known as the greying gene, a dominant trait carried on
the G locus.
—Bedlington Terrier  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The allele which codes for this pattern is located at the "agouti locus" of the
goat genome.
—Goat  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The precise identity of the gene at the "Orange" locus is unknown.
—Cat coat genetics  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Underdominance of the locus is another possibility of phenotypic expression.
—Genomic imprinting  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Cross hybridizations indicate the phenotypes are produced by isoalleles at a
single locus.
—Peppered moth evolution  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


See also the definition of a genetic locus.
—Chromosomal translocation  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


A Mendelian trait is one that is controlled by a single locus in an inheritance
pattern.
—Mendelian inheritance  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...that microsatellite length analysis is prone to PCR limitations like any
other PCR-amplified DNA locus.
—Microsatellite  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Expression is quantified by counting the number of reads that mapped to each
locus in the transcriptome assembly step.
—RNA-Seq  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


As discussed above, "zygosity" can be used in the context of a specific genetic
locus (example).
—Zygosity  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Degeneration is also present in brainstem nuclei like the locus coeruleus.
—Alzheimer's disease  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Opioids inhibit the firing of neurons in the locus coeruleus.
—Locus coeruleus  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Recent studies suggest a correlation between the interfering of the CRISPR-Cas
locus and acquisition of antibiotic resistance.
—CRISPR gene editing  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The target sequence is 20 bases long as part of each CRISPR locus in the crRNA
array.
—CRISPR gene editing  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...looked at studies regarding the correlation between gambling and either an
internal or external locus of control.
—Locus of control  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Changes in the electrophysiological properties of cells in the locus ceruleus
were shown.
—Locus coeruleus  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


This theory approaches two methods of inquiry including locus of causality and
stability.
—Escalation of commitment  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Haploid yeast switch mating type by replacing the information present at the
"MAT" locus.
—Mating of yeast  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The outer curved boundary is the "spectral locus", with wavelengths shown in
nanometers.
—CIE 1931 color space  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...involves recognition and integration of spacers between two adjacent repeats
in the CRISPR locus.
—Cas9  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


This property is inherited by the connectedness locus of real cubic polynomials.
—Mandelbrot set  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


CTCF is present in both the chicken formula 1-globin locus and human formula
1-globin locus.
—Insulator (genetics)  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Jan Gunneweg identified a fourth (locus 129).
—Qumran  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Treatment depends on the locus and severity of infection.
—Trichophyton rubrum  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


There are two primary classifications based on the locus of activity.
—Nuclease  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Of particular interest are the data cited on the relationship between internal
health locus of control and alcohol consumption.
—Locus of control  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Elaborate burial placed in Structure B34 locus.
—Caracol  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


For each point of the root locus a value of formula 14 can be calculated.
—Root locus  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


K, because the chromaticity of the reference moves from the Planckian locus to
the CIE daylight locus.
—Color rendering index  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...supportiveness and parental encouragement seem to be essential for
development of an internal locus".
—Locus of control  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...dialectics" comprises a monument to the end of the tradition of the
individual subject as the locus of criticism.
—Frankfurt School  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The points that are part of the root locus satisfy the angle condition.
—Root locus  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The sex-linked "Orange" locus, "O/o", determines whether a cat will produce
eumelanin.
—Cat coat genetics  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


...the existence of a shared literary canon, which began to be formulated in the
very first Maskilic locus at Berlin.
—Haskalah  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Some cases have Lewy bodies in the locus ceruleus.
—Essential tremor  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Those with an internal locus of control are also more likely to vote.
—Locus of control  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Each old-school vocal twixt node and locus
—"A Little Bit Broad" by MC Frontalot  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


The way we approach that reality has a lot to do with our locus of control.
—Locus of control  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Such a locus is called a branch cut.
—Logarithm  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


It's chewing on my brain like a desert train locus
—"Crazy World" by Ashcroft Richard  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


It is a relaxation on the traditional rule of Locus standi.
—Public interest litigation in India  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Let formula 40 be the zero locus of formula 41.
—Euler class  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


You redefine the locus of your time in space, race
—"Adventurer" by Lou Reed  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


I focus my locus thought on my enemies
—"Runnin On E" by 2Pac F/ Outlawz  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Which made celebrities with BERETTAS claim to be the LOCUS
—"Carma" by The Rodentz  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


State my name and locus frame
—"StreamXSonik Subway" by Sonic Youth  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


I compose another opus as the locus awaits
—"The Demons Blade" by Army of the Pharaohs  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Locus Horrendus in a gloomy world
—"Chapter Ix: Frozen Heart... Lonely Soul..." by Desire  [Similar quotes,
lyrics]


This locus is cursed, shroud me forever
—"Life Dethroned" by Watain  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


I use pencils and pads as my locus and light source
—"Blast from the Past" by The Rodentz  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


This is no hocus pocus, play the game like Locus
—"Hustle" by YoungBloodZ  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Don't lose focus, confront the locus
—"I Got Options Which Way" by Lil B  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Your breasts made me the lover of the three-fold locus,
—"Never Blow Out the Eastern Candle" by Absu  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


So take notice its about to swarm on you like some locus
—"Wake Up Youre Dead" by Prozak  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


I'm a long way from Locus Ave, my locas have
—"220" by Snoop Dogg  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Conjure the locus of the Night
—"For The Elder Magi- I-Eibon The Necromancer" by Necromantia  [Similar quotes,
lyrics]


I bugout like a locus, i know that they just bogus
—"Copacetic" by CaL  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


I'm a plaque on the page words fly like locus
—"Red light green light" by Nine  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Time to shake these haters off like the skin of a Locus,
—"Uptown" by Drake  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


You're far too focused ignore your locus
—"Old Enough" by Random (Mega Ran)  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Locus, where we gotta stay focused
—"Gangsta Boogie" by Wale  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


FLOATING LOCUS MOST OF US DENY
—"Smoke Banshee" by Clutch  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


You see yourself the locus of event
—"Traintime" by Hammill Peter  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award.
—N. K. Jemisin  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


You've got some bad hocus locus
—"You Make My Heart Beat Too Fast" by Wynonna & The Big Noise  [Similar quotes,
lyrics]


Explosion, front locus, will blow ya hearing aid
—"Tribute to the 5th Brother" by 9th Prince  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Eat honey and locus locus (locus)
—"Wit A $20 Dolla Bill" by Bizzy Bone  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


When you do ya hot ones, shoot locus
—"Mayhem" by E-40  [Similar quotes, lyrics]


Ossa sub incuruis extabant arida lumbis; Ventus erat, pro ventre locus.
—The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment… by E. P. (Edward Payson)
Evans  [Similar quotes, lyrics]






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