English-French translations for locus

• lieu
  Je souhaite que l'on crée un lieu de mémoire et d'avenir où l'idée européenne puisse prospérer. I would like to suggest a locus for history and for the future, where the concept of the European idea can continue to grow.
• endroit
• local
• locus
• position

Definition of locus

• A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime
• The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition
• A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes

Examples

• The cafeteria was the locus of activity
• A circle is the locus of points from which the distance to the center is a given value, the radius

Related words

• locust
• locus coeruleus
• Locust Finch
• locust tree
• locust bean
• Planckian locus
• blackbody locus
• quantitative trait locus
• spectral locus