LOCUS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A place; a locality.

2.
n.

The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law. Plane locus, a locus that is a straight line, or a circle. -- Solid locus, a locus that is one of the conic sections.


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