locus
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈloʊkəs/
- Formal
:
lugar
- The village was considered the locus of community activities and cultural events.
- locus of control
- internal locus
- external locus
The center of activity, the locus of growth, it's all elsewhere.
- The center of activity, the locus of growth, it's all elsewhere.
- Is this the body via its wounds, is still the locus of textual inscription.
- In the community, Right, The community which provides a locus of support.
- I think it's Rotter, ROTTR, internal versus external locus of control.
- Do you know the concept internal locus of control?
- The one is to create a locus, a place of significance, much like a camp.
- And I worry about how much people are externalising their locus of control.
- And and the statue could be treated as if it's the locus of the God, but it doesn't it doesn't speak to us.
- Second thing reason that I think people see Lost Connections as controversial is that it puts the locus of control onto the individual.
- So one more locus of discussion is the relationship between hope, optimism, and action.
- So the, and the, so the BLOB really has its sort of central locus within the diplomacy, defense and intelligence worlds.
- The I is the locus of consciousness that feels like a writer inside of my body.
- They don't have an internal locus of control that allows them to say I am responsible for my outcome.
Examples
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Women in their homes were the locus of moral authority in society.
Academic text (2008) -
One is Cuba as a locus of meaning, creativity, and identity in Ernest Hemingway's life.
Academic text (2017) -
So words, individual words, are the locus of a fight.
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Maybe the body is really the locus for who we are.
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The center of activity, the locus of growth, it's all elsewhere.
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And they thought we went to a different state because they had never left the locus of their neighborhood.
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The database did contain a measure of locus of control, which we included in our model.
Academic text (2012) -
So this was long a locus of seemingly intractable poverty and crime.
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The major agricultural policies are described, and the locus of decision-making and channels of influence are identified.
Academic text (1999) -
With the opening of the Western Hemisphere, the locus of world commerce shifted to the Atlantic.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A particular area where something is or should be
∞
1.5
The place or setting where an event happens, especially a public one
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3.5
A place where a public event or meeting happens, like a concert
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4.8
A place where something happens, often the scene of a story
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2.3
A place where people meet regularly to talk and spend time
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2.5
A place where people meet regularly to talk and spend time together
1
9.6
The place where something exists or happens, for legal and medical matters
Compounds
- Literature
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9.9
A passage in a book or article often used as the best example of an idea
- Specialized
A layer of dark tissue in the middle of the brain that helps control movement
Surface Forms
Etymology
Locus comes from Latin locus, which means 'place'. People use it to name the place where something happens, like a meeting or center of activity, and it is the same root as location, so it means a site or focus.