Place

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Place may refer to:

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 culs-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

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

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

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

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

PLACE is Plant cis-acting regulatory DNA elements database which provide information on cis-elements present in upstream regions of plant genes.
It is available at http://www.dna.affrc.go.jp/PLACE/index.html
Reference: K. Higo, Y. Ugawa, M. Iwamoto and T. Korenaga (1999) Plant cis-acting regulatory DNA elements (PLACE) database:1999. Nucleic Acids Research Vol.27 No.1 pp. 297-300.