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Place

An important part of the concept of place is the sociological implication. Place, for a person, may indicate not only location, but position in society, relative wealth, status, and so forth.

Place may also refer to an individual's or family's relative status and relationship as compared to other individuals, groups, or families.

Elements that turn space into a place are memories, feelings, social connections and the presence of others, cultural rules and conventions.

In city planning, a place is a generic used to designate a public square or small park; see also the cognate terms plaza and piazza. In English-speaking countries, the name may also be used as the generic for a street.

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In computer science, a place can refer to a container that you could put data into, as in "a place to store transactions". Its most prominent usage occurs in technical literature translated from the German Language (ie: Petri nets from the dissertation of Carl Adam Petri).

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