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Synonyms
lo·cus (lṓkəs)

[Latin.]

noun: pl., -ci (-sī́, -kē, -kī́) 

  1. A locality; a place.
  2. A center or focus of great activity or intense concentration: “the cunning exploitation of loci of power; the insulation from normal American society” (Clifton Fadiman)
  3. Mathematics The set or configuration of all points whose coordinates satisfy a single equation or one or more algebraic conditions.
  4. The position that a given gene occupies on a chromosome.