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- Dictionarylocus/ˈləʊkəs/
noun
- 1. a particular position or place where something occurs or is situated: technical "it is impossible to specify the exact locus in the brain of these neural events"
- 2. a curve or other figure formed by all the points satisfying a particular equation of the relation between coordinates, or by a point, line, or surface moving according to mathematically defined conditions: "a parabola is the locus of a point that moves so as to be equidistant from a fixed point and a straight line"
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1 day ago · An ellipse (red) obtained as the intersection of a cone with an inclined plane. Ellipse: notations Ellipses: examples with increasing eccentricity. In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant.It generalizes a circle, which is the special type of ellipse in which ...
1 day ago · The Isma'ili ( / ˌɪsmeɪˈɪli /) [10] get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor ( imām) to Ja'far al-Sadiq, wherein they differ from the Twelver Shia, who accept Musa al-Kadhim, the younger brother of Isma'il, as the true Imām.
15 hours ago · The aim of this section is to revisit certain definitions and properties related to the special orthogonal group SO(n) that will be subsequently used. These fundamental notions are extensively covered in ... ( A_j \) belonging to the cut locus of \(A_i\), we use the Riemannian logarithmic map, expressed by Eq.
15 hours ago · The chloroplast is a green sophisticated organelle that is often considered as the biosynthetic center of the plant cell. The first successful chloroplast transformation was performed in the microalgae Chlamydomonas, and since then the algae chloroplast appears very attractive for modifying biochemical pathways, either by changing expression of ...
