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Place (surname)
Place (surname)
People:* Etta Place* Francis Place* Basil Charles Godfrey Place , a British naval officer* Martha M. Place , American murderer* Mary Kay Place* Robert M. Place* Ullin Place, philosopher...
Place, a type of bet
Place (mathematics), an equivalence relation defined on absolute values of an integral domain or field
Place (United States Census Bureau)
Place (United States Census Bureau)
The United States Census Bureau defines the term place as a concentration of population. The types of places defined by the Census Bureau are incorporated place, such as a city, town or village, and census designated place , which resembles a city, town or village but lacks its own government...

, defined as any concentration of population
- Census-designated place
  Census-designated place
  A census-designated place is a type of place identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes. CDPs are delineated for each decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places such as cities, towns and villages...
  
  , a populated area lacking its own municipal government
- Incorporated place, a populated area with its own municipal government
Populated place
Populated place
Defined by the United States Geological Survey, a populated place is a place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population referenced with geographic coordinates.-External links:*...

, a designation by the United States Geological Survey
Place identity
Place identity
Place identity refers to a cluster of ideas about place and identity in the fields of geography, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, environmental psychology, and urban sociology/ecological sociology. It concerns the meaning and significance of places for their inhabitants and users...

, a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants and users
Place setting, a table setting for a single diner
In place-value or positional notation
Positional notation
A positional notation or place-value notation system is a numeral system in which each position is related to the next by a constant multiplier, called the base or radix of that numeral system. The value of each digit position is the value of its digit multiplied by a power of the base; the power...

, the position occupied by a digit in a numeral
Places (Kattoo album)
Places (Kattoo album)
Places is a debut album by German electronic music artist Kattoo. It was released by Hymen in September 2004.-Track listing:# "Place1" - 5:15# "Place2" - 4:32# "Place3" - 5:59# "Place4" - 5:12# "Place5" - 4:51# "Place6" - 6:23# "Place7" - 3:34...

, an electronic album by Kattoo
Sense of place
Sense of place
The term sense of place has been defined and used in different ways by different people. To some, it is a characteristic that some geographic places have and some do not, while to others it is a feeling or perception held by people...

, a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location
Unity of place, one of the three classical unities
Classical unities
The classical unities or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics. In their neoclassical form they are as follows:...

for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics
A person's social position
Social position
Social position is the position of an individual in a given society and culture. A given position may belong to many individuals. Social position influences social status...
Place House
Place House
Place House is a Grade One listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall.Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth century tower, it was defended against the French in 1475 by Dame Elizabeth Treffry...

, a historic building in Fowey, Cornwall
A common misspelling of Plaice
Plaice
Plaice is the common name of four species of flatfishes:* Alaska plaice, Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus* American plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides* European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa* Scale-eye plaice, Acanthopsetta nadeshnyi...

, a type of fish

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