Site

site

(1) See Web site.

(2) A physical location or property.

(3) A Google query operator that hones down the search to a specific Web site. For example, the query amd site: dell.com searches for "AMD" on only Dell's Web site.

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site

a. the piece of land where something was, is, or is intended to be located

b. (as modifier): site office

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site [sīt]

(computer science)

A position available for the symbols of an inscription, for example, a digital place.

A location on a tally that can bear either a mark or a blank; for example, a location that can be punched or left unpunched on a card.

(engineering)

Position of anything; for example, the position of a gun emplacement.

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site

1. An area or plot of ground with defined limits on which a building, project, park, etc., is located or proposed to be located.

2. The specific location of a building or buildings.

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Site 

in genetics, the part of a gene that is capable of independently mutating and recombining. A site is composed of at least one pair of nucleotides; in viruses containing one strand of RNA or DNA, it is composed of at least one nucleotide.

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Site 

in hydraulic engineering, a segment of a river where the structures of a hydroengineering complex are located and where the pressure front is formed by the structures. There are usually two steps involved in the selection of a site. First, a site region is designated in conformity with a general plan for managing the water of the particular river, and then a site axis is determined. The axis is understood as a strip of a certain width that cuts across the river and valley; it may be straight, that is, perpendicular to the banks of the river, curvilinear, or broken. An optimal choice of the site is arrived at by a comparison, from both a technical and economic point of view, of the various alternatives with due regard for climatic, topographical, hydrological, geological, and construction conditions.