Place
Encyclopedia
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 placeCensus-designated placeA 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
- Census-designated place
- Populated placePopulated placeA 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 HousePlace HousePlace 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 - PlacéPlacéPlacé is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France....
, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France - PlačePlace-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 identityPlace identityPlace 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 placeSense of placeThe 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 positionSocial positionSocial 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 notationPositional notationPositional 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 netPetri netA 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 gamblingGamblingGambling 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 unitiesClassical unitiesThe 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 HornRoni HornRoni 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 PlaceThe PlaceThe 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)
- PlaicePlaicePlaice 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'