place
Place ( ahd.ort 'top, place') stands for:
- a place of residence in general, see settlement ,
- an officially defined settlement area, see locality
- the name for a canton in the Old Confederation, see Canton (Switzerland) #History
- the position of a physical body in space, see location (physics)
- mathematically the locus or locus, see geometric location
- the geographical position, see location determination
- Awl , a simple tool
- Place (unit) , volume measure
- Place (heraldry) , herald image in heraldry
- Place (numismatics) , quarter of a whole unit
- Place (weapon) , blade tip for cut or stabbing weapons
- Working face , also Stollort , the end of a stud or a track
- Place (headland) , a headland
The following geographical objects are called location :
- Place in the Innkreis , municipality in Upper Austria
Parish parts:
- Ort (Au ZH) , Quarters Unterort (Au ZH) , Mittelort and Oberort (Au ZH) of the village of Au ZH, Canton of Zurich
- Ort (Freyung) , district of the city of Freyung, Freyung-Grafenau district, Bavaria
- Ort (Helmbrechts) , district of the town of Helmbrechts , Hof district, Bavaria
- Ort (Innernzell) , part of the municipality of Innernzell , Freyung-Grafenau district, Bavaria
- Ort (Jachenau) , part of the community Jachenau , Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district, Bavaria
- Ort (Kirchham) , part of the municipality of Kirchham , Passau district, Bavaria
- Ort (Kochel am See) , district of the municipality of Kochel am See, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district, Bavaria
- Ort (Ruhpolding) , part of the municipality of Ruhpolding , Traunstein district, Bavaria
- Sankt Augustin-Ort , municipality of Sankt Augustin , Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Ort (Trostberg) , district of the city of Trostberg , Traunstein district, Bavaria
- Place (Preitenegg community) , cadastral community of Preitenegg, Wolfsberg district, Carinthia
- Location (municipality of Ampflwang) Location of Ampflwang in the Hausruckwald , Vöcklabruck district, Upper Austria
- Place (municipality of Gmunden) , location and cadastral municipality (Gmunden-Ort) of Gmunden , Gmunden district, Upper Austria
- Place (municipality of Helpfau-Uttendorf) , village of Helpfau-Uttendorf , Upper Austria
- Ort (Steyr) , district of Steyr , Upper Austria
- Ort (community Senftenbach) , locality of Senftenbach , Ried im Innkreis district, Upper Austria
- Ort (community Waldkirchen) , village of Waldkirchen am Wesen , district of Schärding, Upper Austria
such as:
- Schloss Ort , a lake castle on an island in the Traunsee in Gmunden, Upper Austria
Place is the family name of the following people:
- Alexandr Ort (1926–2014), Czech historian and political scientist
- Hans Ort († 2000), German local politician (CSU)
- Jiří Ort (* 1946), Czech-Austrian radio play author
- Kilian Ort (* 1996), German table tennis player
ORT is an abbreviation for:
- Overhead line inspection railcars
- Obschtschestvennoje Rossiyskoye Televideniy , until 2002 the name of the Russian television station Pervy kanal
- Operator recursion theorem , see recursion theorem # Operator recursion theorem
- Oral Rehydration Therapy , treatment of dehydrated people with the WHO drinking solution
- Organization - Reconstruction - Training , Jewish non-governmental organization, based in Geneva, see World ORT
See also:
Wiktionary: Place - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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