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Geography

Place (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space in which has a name in a area
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 concentration of population 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
A populated place is a place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population referenced with geographic coordinates...

, a designation by the United States Geological Survey
Place House
Place House
Place House is a Grade One listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall, England.Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth century tower, which was defended against the French in 1475 by Dame Elizabeth Treffry...

, a historic building in Fowey, Cornwall
Placé
Placé
Placé is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France....

, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France
Plače
Place
-Geography:* Place , an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space in which has a name in a area* Place , defined as any concentration of population...

, a small settlement in Slovenia

Society

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
Sense of place
Sense of place
The term sense of place has been defined and used in many different ways by many 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
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 setting, a table setting for a single diner

Mathematics

Place (mathematics), an equivalence class of absolute values of an integral domain or field
In place-value or positional notation
Positional notation
Positional notation or place-value notation is a method of representing or encoding numbers. Positional notation is distinguished from other notations for its use of the same symbol for the different orders of magnitude...

, the position occupied by a digit in a numeral
Petri net
Petri net
A Petri net is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems. A Petri net is a directed bipartite graph, in which the nodes represent transitions and places...

, also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems

Gambling

A type of wager in gambling
Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods...

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- In the United Kingdom, a bet that produces a return if the selection finishes first or within a predetermined number of positions of first
- In North America, a bet on a horse race that produces a return if a horse finishes either first or second

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