Noun
A place; a locality.
The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself. Jef Raskin
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. Ron Chernow
According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity. Kenneth Waltz
And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret - the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know. Jean Baudrillard
Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its "inevitability," want it in order to shift the locus of their problems. C. Wright Mills
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast. Andrew O'Hagan