Locus



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 地点, 所在地
• ［英］ n. 地点, 所在地 ( a place)
• ［记］ loc ( 地方) +us
• ［例］ the locus of power ( 权力中心)

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural loci)

• Etymology: Latin — more at stall
• Date: 1715
• 1.
  • a. the place where something is situated or occurs ; site, location <was the culture of medicine in the beginning dispersed from a single focus or did it arise in several loci? — S. C. Harvey>
  • b. a center of activity, attention, or concentration <in democracy the locus of power is in the people — H. G. Rickover>
• 2. the set of all points whose location is determined by stated conditions
• 3. the position in a chromosome of a particular gene or allele

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