Place
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Place is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used in a geographic sense as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there. For instance, much has been written about the "sense of place", a well-known phenomenon in human society in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location. Another instance of its use is as an identifier of a location that is noted for a particular characteristic, such as Stonehenge defining its location as a unique place. It may refer to something as macroscopic as, say, New York City, or something as specific as a spot on a shelf. However, in most Wikipedia articles that use it as a link, it is referring to location in a geographic, and not a specific placement, sense.
Other uses for "place" are:
In sociology, place, for a person, may indicate not only location, but position in society, relative wealth, status, and so forth. Place may also refer to an individual's or family's relative status and relationship as compared to other individuals, groups, or families. Elements that turn space into a place are memories, feelings, social connections and the presence of others, cultural rules and conventions.
In city planning, a place is a generic used to designate a public square or small park; see also the cognate terms plaza and piazza. In English-speaking countries, the name may also be used as the generic for a street.
In marketing, place refers to one of the so-called 4 P's, defined as "the market place". It can mean a geographic location, an industry, a group of people (a segment) to whom a company wants to sell its products or services, such as young professional women (e.g. for selling cosmetics) or middle-aged family men (e.g. for selling family cars).
In computer science, a place can refer to a container that you could put data into, as in "a place to store transactions". Its most prominent usage occurs in technical literature translated from the German Language (ie: Petri nets from the dissertation of Carl Adam Petri).
In numeral systems, place can refer to the position of a digit in a number, for example, one's place or ten's place.
In algebra, place refers to an equivalence relation defined on absolute values of an integral domain or field.
In geometry, a locus (Latin for "place", plural loci) is a collection of points which share a property.
In theatre and film, the 'places' call is given to the performers and production team to send them to their 'starting positions' for either a scene, act, or shot.
In philosophy, place is a topographical concept that stands in opposition to space.
Placé is a commune in Pays de la Loire Further Reading:
Exclusive uses
The United States Census Bureau defines the term place as a concentration of population.[1]
[edit] References
- Relph, E (1976) Place and Placelessness
- Doreen Massey
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