Place
Appearance
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Place may refer to:
Surname
- Place (surname), people with the surname Place
Geography
- Place (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space which has a name in an area
- Place (street name), implies a cul-de-sac
- 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 or 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:
Arts
- Places (Jan Garbarek album), 1978
- Places (Béla Fleck album), 1988
- Places (Brad Mehldau album), 2000
- 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
- Unity of place, one of the three classical unities for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics
See also
- Location (disambiguation)
- Locus (disambiguation), Latin for 'place'
- Placement (disambiguation)
- Plaice, a type of fish, misspelt as 'place'
- Plas (disambiguation)