site

Meaning

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
3. The posture or position of a thing.
4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
5. A website.
6. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
7. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
8. A part of the body which has been operated on.

place

location

land site

job site

building lot

sacred place

internet site

public square

residential area

point on a map

project site

building ground

site of a house

field engineering

sitename

address

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/saɪt/

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of situs.

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