Locus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Locus	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Locus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
locus n the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) Synonym(s): venue, locale, locus the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome 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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Locus \Lo"cus\, n.; pl. {Loci}, & {Loca}. [L., place. Cf. {Allow}, {Couch}, {Lieu}, {Local}.] 1. A place; a locality. 2. (Math.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law. {Plane locus}, a locus that is a straight line, or a circle. {Solid locus}, a locus that is one of the conic sections.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Locus A distributed system project supporting transparent access to data through a network-wide file system.