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1
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
- an area of the Southwest that has been the locus of a number of New Agey movements
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- attraction,
- lodestone
- (also loadstone),
- magnet,
- polestar
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2
the area or space occupied by or intended for something
- the locus of brightness occurs where the rays of sunlight converge in front of the lens
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“Locus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locus. Accessed 20 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of locus was in 1648
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