Locus (plural loci) is Latin for "place". It may refer to:
Entertainment
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Locus (comics)
Locus is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first one, whose real name is Aaron Verne, first appeared in ''Thor'' #302 (Dec. 1980), and has the ability to create geometric ener ...
, a Marvel Comics mutant villainess, a member of the Mutant Liberation Front
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''Locus'' (magazine), science fiction and fantasy magazine
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Locus Award'', presented to the winners of ''Locus'' magazine's annual readers' poll
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''Locus'' (video game), a 1995 video game by Zombie Studios
* ''Locus'', a 2020 album by
Satyr
Computers and mathematics
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Locus (mathematics)
In geometry, a locus (plural: ''loci'') (Latin word for "place", "location") is a set of all points (commonly, a line, a line segment, a curve or a surface), whose location satisfies or is determined by one or more specified conditions..
In o ...
, the set of points satisfying a particular condition, often forming a curve
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LOCUS (operating system)
Locus (plural loci) is Latin for "place". It may refer to:
Entertainment
* Locus (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant villainess, a member of the Mutant Liberation Front
* ''Locus'' (magazine), science fiction and fantasy magazine
** ''Locus Award' ...
, a distributed OS developed at UCLA, notable for single-system image idea
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Locus Computing Corporation
Locus Computing Corporation was formed in 1982 by Gerald J. Popek, Charles S. Kline and Gregory I. Thiel
to commercialize the technologies developed for the LOCUS distributed operating system at UCLA. Locus was notable for commercializing sing ...
(1982–1995), commercialized the LOCUS distributed operating system developed at UCLA
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Locus Map, an Android navigation app using maps of various providers in online and offline mode
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Locus Technologies (1997), an environmental software company that organizes data via the Internet
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Root locus, a diagram visualizing the position of roots as a parameter changes
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Wang LOCI (Logarithmic Computing Instrument), an early scientific calculator by Wang
Science
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Locus (archaeology), the smallest definable unit in stratigraphy
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Locus (genetics), the position of a gene or other significant sequence on a chromosome
Other
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Locus (rhetoric), another name for a literary or rhetorical ''topos'', a method of constructing an argument
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Locus of control, the degree to which people have control over events
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Method of loci, a mnemonic system that uses the spatial memory of a familiar place to enhance recollection
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HTT Pléthore
The HTT Pléthore was supposed to be the first Canada, Canadian supercar, developed and produced by HTT Automobile in Quebec, Canada. However, the company has been inactive in recent years.
History
It debuted at the 2007 Montreal Internation ...
(Locus Plethore), a Canadian supercar proposed by HTT Automobile in Quebec, Canada
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(LOCI) of the University of Louvain in Belgium
See also
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