Place

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Look up place or placing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Place may refer to:

Geography

Place (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space
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 House, a historic building in Fowey, 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 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

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

Unity of place, one of the three classical unities for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics
Places (Jan Garbarek album) an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek
Places (Kattoo album), an electronic album by Kattoo
To Place, a series of books on Iceland by artist Roni Horn