transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈlō-kəs ]
noun
( plural lo·ci ˈlō-ˌsī, -ˌkī, -ˌkē)
Etymology: Latin — more at stall
Date: 1715
1.
a. : the place where something is situated or occurs : site , location
was the culture of medicine in the beginning dispersed from a single focus or did it arise in several loci ? — S. C. Harvey
b. : a center of activity, attention, or concentration
in democracy the locus of power is in the people — H. G. Rickover
2. : the set of all points whose location is determined by stated conditions
3. : the position in a chromosome of a particular gene or allele