Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 16 compound words that contain locus. The most common are listed below. Open locus in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- locus of controlThe extent to which one believes that one's personal outcomes depend on their own actions as opposed to external events beyond their control.
- locus standiA right to appear in a court of law; legal standing.
- locus classicusAn authoritative passage from a standard work that is often quoted as an illustration; a classic case or example.
- locus amoenusA literary motif of an idealised place of safety or comfort, typically comprising a meadow, trees (for shade) and water; sometimes evoking connotations of Eden or Elysium.
- locus coeruleusA small nucleus, located bilaterally in the pons, which contains norepinephrine and has projections to most of the brain.
- zero locusThe set of points (usually in affine or projective space, but more generally in the domain of the function) where the given polynomial (or function) takes the value zero.
- vanishing locusSynonym of zero locus: The set of points (usually in affine or projective space, but more generally in the domain of the function) where the given polynomial (or function) takes the value zero.
- locus in quoThe scene of the event; the place where the cause of action arose.
- locus poenitentiaeThe opportunity to withdraw from an ongoing process of committing oneself to an obligation, before such commitment is finalized; specifically, the opportunity to abstain from committing an intended crime before it is too late.
- variable tandem repeat locusAny DNA sequence that exists in multiple copies strung together in various tandem lengths.
Compound words 16
- sublocusA subsidiary locus.
- eigenlocusA locus of a point that moves about an eigenaxis
- homeolocusOne of several loci that have the same sequence of nucleotides.
- epilocusAn epicentral locus
- interlocusBetween genetic loci
- intralocusWithin a genetic locus
- minilocusA small locus
- superlocusA position on a chromosome that is part of many genes
- translocusDescribing organisms created via the transfer of a chain locus
- multilocusInvolving multiple loci