Place

Place may refer to:

Geography

• Place (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space in which has a name in an area
• Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any concentration of population
  • Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government
  • Incorporated place, a populated area with its own municipal government
• Populated place, a designation by the United States Geological Survey
• Place, based on the Cornish word plas meaning Mansion
  • Place House, a 16th century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall
  • Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall
  • Place House, a 19th century mansion on the site of a medieval priory, in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall
• Placé, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France
• Plače, a small settlement in Slovenia

Society

• Place identity, a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants and users
• Sense of place, a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location
• A person's social position
• 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, the position occupied by a digit in a numeral
• Petri net, also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems

Gambling

• A type of wager in gambling:
  • 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 for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics
• Places (Jan Garbarek album), 1978
• Places (Béla Fleck album), 1988
• Places (Georgie James album), 2007
• Places (Casiopea album), 2003
• To Place, a series of books on Iceland by artist Roni Horn
• The Place, a dance and performance centre in Camden, London

See also

• Locus (disambiguation), Latin for 'place'
• Placement (disambiguation)
• Plaice, a type of fish, misspelt as 'place'
• Plas