Definitions for loci

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loci lo·ci

Spelling: [loh-sahy, -kee, -kahy]

IPA: /ˈloʊ saɪ, -ki, -kaɪ/

Loci is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in loci (cilo).

Definitions for loci

noun

1. plural of locus.
2. a place; locality.
3. a center or source, as of activities or power:
4. Mathematics. the set of all points, lines, or surfaces that satisfy a given requirement.
5. Genetics. the chromosomal position of a gene as determined by its linear order relative to the other genes on that chromosome.
6. the guardian spirit of a place.
7. the distinctive character or atmosphere of a place with reference to the impression that it makes on the mind.

Origin of loci

1525-35; Latin; OL stlocus a place

Examples for loci

My remembrance of dates is also nearly entirely dependent on a clear mental vision of their loci in the diagram.

The uncorrected value obtained in any experiment with two loci widely separated will be smaller than the value given in the map.

The first of these loci is, if the matter of the definition is not prius and notius as compared with the definiend.

To this general subject matter Aristotle gives the name "Topics" (τόποι, loci, communes loci).

It is reasonable to assume that the vectors of these stresses were concentrated at the loci of their origin.

He makes a fourfold distribution of loci, according as they bear upon one or other of these four.

Another work, based on the formula of Concord, was entitled loci communes theologici.

Saluo tamen nobis et heredibus nostris, Regibus Anglie, libero transitu per medium Noui loci in quolibet aduentu nostro ibidem.

Such are the loci regarding Indistinctness in the setting out of the definition.

Grounds of proof,—in the scholastic sense of τὁποι, or loci.