Locus

If you think you are at the mercy of forces beyond your control, you have an external locus of control.

If you think you have control over your own life, you have an internal locus of control.

A bank in the tiny European state of Andorra has become the focus of investigations by the United States, Venezuela, and others as a locus of corruption activity.

The cafeteria was the locus of activity.

A circle is the locus of points from which the distance to the center is a given value, the radius.

Holonyms: subband < band < region < replicon

Meronyms: sublocus; gene, cistron; pseudogene