site

site "Sitz"

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sīt, IPA^(key): /saɪt/

Noun

site (plural sites)

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position

   the site of a city or of a house

2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation

   a site for a church

3. The posture or position of a thing.
4. A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
5. (Internet) A website.
6. (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
7. Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.