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[ noun ] (geography) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
Synonyms Examples : "a good site for the school" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Money for its construction will be sought later_on but in_the_meantime the State_Hospital board can accept gifts and donations of a site . Natural_gas public_utility companies would be given the right of eminent_domain , under a bill by Sen._Frank_Owen /3 , of El_Paso , to acquire sites for underground storage reservoirs for gas . (Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)This is particularly true in site selection . You must know before you start what the needs and objectives of your organization are ; you must have a list of requirements on where , how many , and what type sites are needed . With such a program you can make constructive selections of the best sites available . |
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[ noun ] physical position in relation to the surroundings
Synonyms Examples "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides" Used in print (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)In the United_States Department_of_Agriculture 's Yearbook_of_Agriculture , 1952 , which is devoted entirely to insects , George_E._Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200000 nesting females . Related terms position locus_of_infection active_site restriction_site locus situate |
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[ noun ] (computer science) a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web
Synonyms Examples "the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers" |
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