Place
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Geography

  • Place (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space in which has a name in a area
  • Place (United States Census Bureau)
    Place (United States Census Bureau)
    The United States Census Bureau defines the term place as a concentration of population. The types of places defined by the Census Bureau are incorporated place, such as a city, town or village, and census designated place , which resembles a city, town or village but lacks its own government...

    , defined as any concentration of population
    • Census-designated place
      Census-designated place
      A census-designated place is a concentration of population identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes. CDPs are delineated for each decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places such as cities, towns and villages...

      , a populated area lacking its own municipal government
    • Incorporated place, a populated area with its own municipal government
  • Populated place
    Populated place
    A populated place is a place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population referenced with geographic coordinates...

    , a designation by the United States Geological Survey
  • Place House
    Place House
    Place House is a Grade One listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall, England.Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth century tower, which was defended against the French in 1475 by Dame Elizabeth Treffry...

    , a historic building in Fowey, Cornwall
  • Placé
    Placé
    Placé is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France....

    , a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France
  • Plače
    Place
    -Geography:* Place , an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space in which has a name in a area* Place , defined as any concentration of population...

    , a small settlement in Slovenia

Society

  • Place identity
    Place identity
    Place identity refers to a cluster of ideas about place and identity in the fields of geography, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, environmental psychology, and urban sociology/ecological sociology. It concerns the meaning and significance of places for their inhabitants and users...

    , a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants and users
  • Sense of place
    Sense of place
    The term sense of place has been defined and used in many different ways by many different people. To some, it is a characteristic that some geographic places have and some do not, while to others it is a feeling or perception held by people...

    , a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location
  • A person's social position
    Social position
    Social position is the position of an individual in a given society and culture. A given position may belong to many individuals. Social position influences social status...

  • Place setting, a table setting for a single diner

Mathematics

  • Place (mathematics), an equivalence class of absolute values of an integral domain or field
  • In place-value or positional notation
    Positional notation
    Positional notation or place-value notation is a method of representing or encoding numbers. Positional notation is distinguished from other notations for its use of the same symbol for the different orders of magnitude...

    , the position occupied by a digit in a numeral
  • Petri net
    Petri net
    A Petri net is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems. A Petri net is a directed bipartite graph, in which the nodes represent transitions and places...

    , also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems

Gambling

  • A type of wager in gambling
    Gambling
    Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods...

    :
    • In the United Kingdom, a bet that produces a return if the selection finishes first or within a predetermined number of positions of first
    • In North America, a bet on a horse race that produces a return if a horse finishes either first or second

Arts

  • Unity of place, one of the three classical unities
    Classical unities
    The classical unities, Aristotelian unities or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics. In their neoclassical form they are as follows:...

     for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics
  • Places (Jan Garbarek album)
    Places (Jan Garbarek album)
    Places is an album by the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek released on the ECM label and performed by Garbarek, John Taylor, Bill Connors, and Jack DeJohnette.-Reception:...

    , 1978
  • Places (Béla Fleck album)
    Places (Béla Fleck album)
    Places is a compilation album by American banjoist Béla Fleck, recorded in 1988. It marks Fleck's last record with Rounder Records, subsequent label change to Warner Bros...

    , 1988
  • Places (Georgie James album), 2007
  • Places (Casiopea album)
    PLACES (Casiopea album)
    -Personnel:CASIOPEA are*Supervisor — Yoshinori Kumazawa, Masatomo Makino*Recording & Mixing Engineer — Hiroyuki Shimura*Mastering Engineer — Tohru Kotetsu...

    , 2003
  • To Place, a series of books on Iceland by artist Roni Horn
    Roni Horn
    Roni Horn is an American visual artist and writer. Horn's oeuvre, which spans almost four decades, encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation. The granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York and lives and works in New York...

  • The Place
    The Place
    The Place is a dance and performance centre in Duke's Road near Euston in the London Borough of Camden. Originally the home base of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre from the 1970s, it is now the location of the London Contemporary Dance School, the Richard Alston Dance Company and the Robin...

    , a dance and performance centre in Camden, London

See also

  • Locus (disambiguation), Latin for 'place'
  • Placement (disambiguation)
  • Plaice
    Plaice
    Plaice is the common name of four species of flatfishes.Plaice or PLAICE may also refer to:* USS Plaice , a Balao-class submarine* PLAICE, an open source hardware FLASH programmer, memory emulator, and logic analyzer...

    , a type of fish, misspelt as 'place'
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