Locus

locus (plural loci) is Latin for "place". It may refer to:

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Locus (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant villainess, a member of the Mutant Liberation Front
Locus (magazine), science fiction and fantasy magazine
- Locus Award, presented to the winners of Locus magazine's annual readers' poll
Locus (video game), a 1995 video game by Zombie Studios

Locus (mathematics), the set of points satisfying a particular condition, often forming a curve
LOCUS (operating system), a distributed OS developed at UCLA, notable for single-system image idea
Locus Computing Corporation (1982–1995), commercialized the LOCUS distributed operating system developed at UCLA
Locus Technologies (1997), an environmental software company that organizes data via the Internet
Root locus, a diagram visualizing the position of roots as a parameter changes
Wang LOCI (Logarithmic Computing Instrument) an early scientific calculator by Wang

Locus (archaeology), the smallest definable unit in stratigraphy
Locus (genetics), the position of a gene or other significant sequence on a chromosome

Locus (rhetoric), another name for a literary or rhetorical topos, a method of constructing an argument
Locus of control, the degree to which people have control event
Method of loci, a mnemonic system that uses the spatial memory of a familiar place to enhance recollection
HTT Pléthore (Locus Plethore), a Canadian supercar proposed by HTT Automobile in Quebec, Canada
UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (LOCI) of the University of Louvain in Belgium

gollark: Hmm. What if you *are* Biden?

gollark: And yet it does NOT match patterns, unlike one of them?

gollark: I wrote #11 because my RNG says so.

gollark: I wrote all of them to confuse people.

gollark: Are you using steganography or something? Initiating soul harvesting...