Definitions for locus

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locus lo·cus

Spelling: [loh-kuh s]

IPA: /ˈloʊ kəs/

Locus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in locus (closu).

Definitions for locus

noun

1. a place; locality.
2. a center or source, as of activities or power:
3. Mathematics. the set of all points, lines, or surfaces that satisfy a given requirement.
4. Genetics. the chromosomal position of a gene as determined by its linear order relative to the other genes on that chromosome.
5. classical source: a passage commonly cited to illustrate or explain a subject or word.
6. the place in which; the very place; the scene of the event.
7. See L.S (def 3).

Origin of locus

1525-35; Latin; OL stlocus a place

Examples for locus

At the locus of policy on peace, territory and Palestinians, the picture is worse.

The result is that you have no locus standi as a resident in the house.

We had no "locus standi" for complaining of this change and did not complain.

This question of accountability has interesting links with the theory of “locus of control.”

The locus of the idea, of the given problem, is not the same in the two processes.

The nursing situation is the locus of all that is known and done in nursing.

And as I had no army with me, I had no locus standi for sending an ambassador.

The 18th Street Gang was named after the locus of its birth in the Ramparts section.

With Mitch McConnell soon to be in charge, look for the Senate to become the locus of attacks on campaign finance reform.

He despised it for showing war not as an arena of bravery and honor but as a locus of dread and fear.