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- noun organic chemistry That part of the
name of acompound (often aletter ornumber ) that describes theposition of anatom ,residue orfunctional group e.g. the 2 in hexan-2-one
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Examples
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Hic portus alii efibdiunt: hic alta thealris Fundamenta locant alii, inmanisque columnas Rupibus excidunt, fcenis decora alta futuris.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Cultufque divins parentis » -. | r Fixa locant monumenu terris | ..,
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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EiHllud juramen - modo illa difponuntur: quo - tum hujusmodi: Nihit e ties vero feparata; cetera cafiris fe furaturos: quidem, ut diftum eil, lo - veruni & fi quid forte cant; forum vero, & quas - aliquis inveneritf id 'ilorium, ac prsetorium, m adtribunos relatu• medio locant utriusque le - rum.
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Cometas in coelo locant: quae fenien - tiaeft& Cartefii& LudoviciColum - bi aliorumque; tum & Tychonis,
Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) magdeburgica de vacuo spatio Guericke, Otto von, 1602-1686 1672
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Vicos locant, non in nostrum morem, connexis et cohærentibus ædificiis: suam quisque domum spatio circumdat. "
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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I’ll whack their faces with their own fish baskets, just to teach ’em what an abomination they are to the public nose. tum lanii autem, qui concinnant liberis orbas oves, qui locant caedundos agnos et duplam agninam danunt, qui petroni nomen indunt verveci sectario, 820 eum ego si in via petronem publica conspexero et petronem et dominum reddam mortales miserrumos.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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P H O R M I O. aoj Suam unicam locant »? parvi rettiilit Non fufcepiffe *.
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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