Noun, : locus of control.    From Dictionary.com. 

Cano (died 1560) applied the term loci theologici to a treatise on the fundamental principles or sources of theological science.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

"It is a potent genus loci, which is a very spiritual kind of energy that I wanted to embrace and put in the movie," Cage said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The points, referred to as loci, represent important locations for nerves and that, when manipulated, somehow aid healing, experts say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Reference

Anyway, the DNA samples matched at ten loci, which is only a partial profile, but it’s still useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unspeakable] Reference

Of these 'loci', seven showed consistently strong associations with the condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Desain mengambil ide dari ranting pohon kamboja. saya belajar tentang proses pencarian ide, yang diambil dari'loci'nya.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Such common loci are nonexistent totally conceptional phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Basic Features of the Gelug-Chittamatra System ��� 2 Specific Points Concerning the Three Types of Characterized Phenomena] Reference

The genius loci of old Beijing was greatly diminished, but survived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable & Quotable] Reference

Nam multitudo hostium ne circumvenire queat, prohibent angustiae loci.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference

Don Alfonso el dì va a piacere in diversi loci come giovene; il quale, dice S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

And the thing is, is perhaps they could not pick up these loci that we just heard about.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2006] Reference

He had developed techniques for isolating those mutations that occur at a selected gene loci.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

The first order of business is to set up the units (loci) we will be working on during the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 Field Note 2 - The Good Life: A Day at Hierakonpolis] Reference

The data revealed eight loci — sections of genetic code — three of which suggested exclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Claim to Camelot] Reference

Thus, power is found in all social relations, and must be identified in various loci of activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics in the Yishuv and Israel.] Reference

Illinois 'database reportedly has 903 out of a total of 220,000 profiles matching at 9 or more loci.    From Wordnik.com.  [Osagie K. Obasogie: Democrats and DNA Databases] Reference

Lagarde, we see the Catholic scholastic structure standing untouched with the exception of a few loci.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preaching and Paganism] Reference

Now, there's something very interesting about DNA, and that is that they look for markers called loci.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2006] Reference

They go to 16 loci and they will never -- there is not an expert around that will tell you that it is 100 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2007] Reference

They have not hit that point where they're confident that they have more than 10 loci or markers matching Littlejohn's DNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2006] Reference

Early knowledge of the genius loci has left an impression on the editor's mind which has produced this very completely illustrated edition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849] Reference