Place

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Place may refer to:

Geography[edit]

Placenames[edit]

Facilities and structures[edit]

  • 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

People with the name[edit]

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Music[edit]

Albums[edit]

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Gambling[edit]

  • 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.

Mathematics[edit]

  • 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

Society[edit]

  • 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

See also[edit]