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locus (plural loci) is Latin for "place". It may refer to:
Entertainment
- 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
Computers and mathematics
- 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) am early scientific calculator by Wang
Science
- Locus (archaeology), the smallest definable unit in stratigraphy
- Locus (genetics), the position of a gene or other significant sequence on a chromosome
Other
- 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
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