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Date: 1700-1800
Language: Latin
Origin: 'place'

locus

 noun
     
lo‧cus plural loci [countable] formal
the place where something is particularly known to exist, or which is the centre of something
locus of
The Politburo was the locus of all power in the Soviet Union.
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