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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

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Site

1. A contiguous area of land, including a lot or lots or a portion thereof, upon which a project is developed or proposed for development; an area of property that is experiencing land development and management.

2. American group launched by James Wines, and best known for the designs for the Best Products chain of stores, where unique manipulation of architectural elements made the buildings notorious. One of the most unique, but never realized, was the “highrise of houses,” wherein a neighborhood of complete single-story residences were stacked within a steel superstructure. The later works include exhibits for the Expo ’92, Seville, Spain (1992).

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

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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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.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

site

(1) See website.

(2) A physical location or property.

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

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