scite

Noun

site (plural sites)

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
   • the site of a city or of a house
2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
   • a site for a church
3. The posture or position of a thing.
   • And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix...
4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
   • The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...1982, Jack B. Rochester, Perspectives on Information Management: A Critical Selection of Computerworld Feature Articles, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 433
5. (Internet) A website.
   • [G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi
6. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.

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