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Location vs Locus - What's the difference?

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Locus is a related term of location.



As nouns the difference between location and locus

is that location is a particular point or place in physical space while locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.

location

English

(wikipedia location)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A particular point or place in physical space.
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  • An act of locating.
  • * 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. ''v.'' Snodgrass'', reprinted in, 1887, , volume 12, page 207 [http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location]:
    • The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
  • (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
  • * 2011 , Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
    • It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations

    Synonyms

    * (a place) place

    Derived terms

    * geolocation

    Related terms

    * local * localize * locate * locational * locative * locator

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    locus

    English

    Noun

    (loci)
  • A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
    • The cafeteria was the locus of activity.
  • (mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.
    • A circle is the locus of points from which the distance to the center is a given value, the radius.
  • (genetics) A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.

    • Usage notes

    * sometimes confused with locust

    Related terms

    * local * locality * localization * localize * locate * location * locator