Place

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Place may refer to:

Geography

Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any concentration of population
- Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government
"Place", a type of street or road name
- Often implies a dead end (street) or cul-de-sac
Place, based on the Cornish word "plas" meaning mansion
Place, a populated place, an area of human settlement
- Incorporated place (see municipal corporation), a populated area with its own municipal government
Location (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space which has a name in an area

Place House, a 16th-century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall, England
Place House, a 19th-century mansion on the site of a medieval priory, in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall, England
Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall, England
The Place (London), a dance and performance centre in London, England

Place, Australian magazine merged into The Adelaide Review in 2008
r/place, a social experiment by Reddit for April Fool's Day
The Place, London, a dance and performance centre in Camden, London
To Place, a series of books on Iceland by artist Roni Horn
Unity of place, one of the three classical unities for drama derived from Aristotle's Poetics
Places Journal, a journal of architecture criticism
The Place (film), a 2017 Italian film

Craps § Place, in craps a bet that a point number will be rolled before a seven
Place, in horse racing, a parimutuel bet that a horse will finish first or within a predetermined number of positions of first. In North America, this would mean finishing first or second.

Place (mathematics), an equivalence class of absolute values of an integral domain or field
In place-value, or positional notation, the position occupied by a digit in a numeral
Petri net, also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems

Place, a person's social position
Place identity, a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants or users
Place setting, a table setting for a single diner
Sense of place, a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location