Gail Sheehy

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

American Writer

Jacques Lacan

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

French Psychologist

Nicole Mones

Even though Japan and Germany were not formal allies at the time that Japan conquered Shanghai in 1937, still, Frenchtown was an area that Japan could take complete control of - and they did. And it was the locus of nightlife.

American Novelist

Ron Chernow

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

American Author

Rebecca Traister

It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off gender as an independent locus of oppression, we dilute the strength of a women's movement, or of women's rights advocacy.

Jeremy Allaire

Social messaging has become the defining app of the smartphone era. Social payments has been a natural extension of this phenomenon - it's going to be the locus of most communications activity.

American Businessman

Peter Senge

If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.

American Scientist

Andrew O'Hagan

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Scottish Novelist

James Gray

The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

American Director

Avoid using 'locus' as a direct substitute for 'location' in everyday speak; it's more specific.

Not a synonym

'Locus' often refers to an abstract point or center where something important occurs.

Abstract Focus

Prefer 'locus' in formal or academic contexts to add precision to your language.

Formal Speech

In genetics, 'locus' refers precisely to a gene's fixed position on a chromosome.

Biology Precision

The plural of 'locus' is 'loci', useful to identify multiple locations in genetics.

No Plural Change

'Locus' in mathematics describes locations that fit a specific condition, not just any area.

Mathematical Concept

The locus in math follows a rule or equation that points must adhere to.

Specific Rule

 but actually, for some of the people, it took them a lot longer to get through our obstacle course, and we wanted to know why. It turns out that there's this important human dimension -- a personality dimension called locus of control, and people who have a strong internal locus of control,

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 failing because they weren't chemists and certainly neither quick or I were chemists so we tried to build a model and he Frances the locus of local said he thought okay he likes x-ray diagram he thought was compatible with a here so we built a

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 that our technology, we were hampered by our technology. Every time you build a new piece of technology, you learn a tremendous amount. Moreover, you can see that there are some yellow points kissing that Earth locus at one Earth diameter

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 if a choice affects you, then you should be the one to make it. This is the only way to ensure that your preferences and interests will be most fully accounted for. It is essential for success. In America, the primary locus of choice

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 that have a matching sequence. So those little bits of RNA from the CRISPR locus associate -- they bind -- to protein called Cas9, which is white in the picture, and form a complex that functions like a sentinel in the cell.

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 support the existence of knowledge-producing groups and intellectuals, ensuring that the continent becomes the immediate locus of knowledge production, distribution and consumption,

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 whatever the name might be through which you name or access the presence of divinity, it is the locus of absolute being, absolute love and mercy and compassion,

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 an adult locus eats its entire body weight every day and a whole swarm can consume literally hundreds of tons of vegetation they have to keep on moving

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