If you think you are at the mercy of forces beyond your control, you have an external locus of control.
Source: tatoeba (10538150)
Locus
//ˈləʊkəs//
Synonyms for "locus" (31 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
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1 entriesRelated terms
10 entriesderived
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
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2 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
58 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- местоположение noun (place or locality)
- място noun (place or locality)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 轨迹 noun (set of all points given by an equation or condition)
Czech
1 entries- místo noun (place or locality)
Danish
2 entries- lokalitet noun (place or locality)
- plads noun (place or locality)
Dutch
3 entries- localiteit noun (place or locality)
- meetkundige plaats noun (set of all points given by an equation or condition)
- plaats noun (place or locality)
Finnish
4 entries- lokus noun (portion of a DNA or RNA string)
- paikka noun (place or locality)
- sija noun (place or locality)
- sijainti noun (place or locality)
French
4 entries- endroit noun (place or locality)
- lieu noun (place or locality)
- lieu noun (set of all points given by an equation or condition)
- local noun (place or locality)
German
1 entries- Ort noun (place or locality)
Greek
2 entries- τόπος noun (place or locality)
- τόπος noun (set of all points given by an equation or condition)
Hungarian
4 entries- elhelyezkedés noun (place or locality)
- fekvés noun (place or locality)
- génhely noun (portion of a DNA or RNA string)
- hely noun (place or locality)
Indonesian
2 entries- lokus noun (set of all points given by an equation or condition)
- lokus noun (portion of a DNA or RNA string)
Japanese
1 entries- 軌跡 noun (set of all points given by an equation or condition)
Latin
1 entries- locus noun (place or locality)
Occitan
3 entries- locus noun (portion of a DNA or RNA string)
- lòc noun (place or locality)
- lòc noun (set of all points given by an equation or condition)
Portuguese
3 entries- lugar noun (place or locality)
- lócus noun (portion of a DNA or RNA string)
- sítio noun (place or locality)
Romanian
3 entries- loc noun (place or locality)
- localitate noun (place or locality)
- locuri noun (place or locality)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lokalitet noun (place or locality)
- mesto (mjesto) noun (place or locality)
Slovak
1 entries- miesto noun (place or locality)
Spanish
4 entries- locus noun (place or locality)
- locus noun (portion of a DNA or RNA string)
- lugar noun (place or locality)
- lugar noun (set of all points given by an equation or condition)
Swedish
1 entries- locus noun (portion of a DNA or RNA string)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
If you think you have control over your own life, you have an internal locus of control.
Source: tatoeba (10538151)
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.
Source: tatoeba (10546731)
The cafeteria was the locus of activity.
Source: wiktionary
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