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A site is the location
Location (geography)

In geography, location is a position or point in physical space that something occupies on Earths' surface. An reality location can often be designated using a specific pairing of latitude and longitude, a Cartesian coordinate system grid , a Spherical coordinate system, or an ellipsoid-based system ....
 of an event, structure, object, or other thing, whether actual, virtual
Virtual

The term virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also, differing denotations.The term has been defined in philosophy as "that which is not real" but may display the full qualities of the real....
, abandoned (eg. an archaeological site
Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved , and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record...
), extant, or plan
Plan

A plan is typically any procedure used to achieve an objective. It is a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.Plans can be formal or informal:...
ned.



In information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
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A site is the location
Location (geography)

In geography, location is a position or point in physical space that something occupies on Earths' surface. An reality location can often be designated using a specific pairing of latitude and longitude, a Cartesian coordinate system grid , a Spherical coordinate system, or an ellipsoid-based system ....
 of an event, structure, object, or other thing, whether actual, virtual
Virtual

The term virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also, differing denotations.The term has been defined in philosophy as "that which is not real" but may display the full qualities of the real....
, abandoned (eg. an archaeological site
Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved , and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record...
), extant, or plan
Plan

A plan is typically any procedure used to achieve an objective. It is a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.Plans can be formal or informal:...
ned.

  • For a building site, see construction
    Construction

    In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking....
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  • For a site on the World Wide Web
    World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain writing, s, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks....
    , see website
    Website

    A Web site is a collection of related Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are hosted on one Web server, usually accessible via the Internet....
    .


In information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
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  • an Active Directory Site is an object in Active Directory
    Active Directory

    Active Directory is a technology created by Microsoft that provides a variety of network services, including:* Lightweight Directory Access Protocol-like directory services...
     that represents a geographic location.


In mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
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  • A site is a category
    Category (mathematics)

    In mathematics, a category is a fundamental and abstract way to describe mathematical entities and their relationships. A category is composed of a collection of abstract "objects" of any kind, linked together by a collection of abstract "morphism" of any kind that have a few basic properties ....
     C together with a Grothendieck topology
    Grothendieck topology

    In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a Grothendieck topology is a structure on a category C which makes the objects of C act like the open sets of a topological space....
     on C.


Other uses:
  • SITE Institute
    SITE Institute

    The Search for International Terrorist Entities Intelligence Group was an organization that tracked the online activity of terrorist organizations....
    , non-profit anti-terrorism organization.
  • SITE, is abbreviation of Sindh Industrial & Trading Estate
    Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate

    Sindh Industrial Trading Estates Limited aka SITE Limited, is a Government guaranteed company established in November 1947 by Government of Sindh, on the pattern of the Trading Estates in the United Kingdom....
    .
  • SITE Town
    SITE Town

    SITE Town is a small, densely populated town in western part of Karachi, Pakistan and is named after the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate, which forms the heart of the town....
    , densely populated town in Karachi
    Karachi

    is the largest city, seaport and the International financial centre of Pakistan. It is List of metropolitan areas by population in terms of metropolitan population, and is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, and trade....
    , Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
    .
  • SITE Industrial Area
    S.I.T.E Industrial Area

    Sindh Industrial Trading Estate is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Designated as an Industrial Area in 1963, S.I.T.E is the oldest and the largest designated Industrial Area of Pakistan, encompassing 4700 acres of land....
    , Karachi
    Karachi

    is the largest city, seaport and the International financial centre of Pakistan. It is List of metropolitan areas by population in terms of metropolitan population, and is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, and trade....
    , Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
    .
  • SITE, Satellite Instructional Television Experiment
    Satellite Instructional Television Experiment

    The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment or SITE was an experimental satellite communications project launched in India in 1975, designed jointly by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization ....
    .
  • SITE, Sculpture in the Environment
    Sculpture in the Environment

    Sculpture in the Environment is an architecture and environmental design organisation, founded in 1970, and located in the Wall Street area of New York City....
    , American architecture firm.
  • SITE, the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa
    University of Ottawa

    The University of Ottawa or Universit? d'Ottawa in French language is a bilingual , research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario....
    .
  • Site (National Register of Historic Places), a classification used by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.


Not to be confused with SETI
SETI

Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is the collective name for a number of activities to detect intelligent extraterrestrial life. The general approach of SETI projects is to survey the sky to detect the existence of interstellar communication from a civilization on a distant planet ? an approach widely endorsed by the scientific...
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