Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun locus

3 senses of locus

Sense 1
venue, locale, locus -- (the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting))
       => scene -- (the place where some action occurs; "the police returned to the scene of the crime")

Sense 2
locus -- (the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome)
       => site, situation -- (physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides")

Sense 3
locus -- (the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions; "the locus of points equidistant from a given point is a circle")
       => set -- ((mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite")