"Locus"是什么意思?

1.A locality; a place.

处所；地方

2.A center or focus of great activity or intense concentration:

核心：重要活动或注意力的中心或焦点：

“the cunning exploitation of loci of power; the insulation from normal American society”(Clifton Fadiman)

“对权力核心的巧妙利用；与正常的美国社会相隔绝”(克利夫顿·法迪曼)

Mathematics The set or configuration of all points whose coordinates satisfy a single equation or one or more algebraic conditions.

3.数学 轨迹：其坐标满足某一等式或一个或多个代数条件的所有的点的集合或组合

4.The position that a given gene occupies on a chromosome.

基因座：在一条染色体上某种给定基因所占的位置