site

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web

   the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers

2. 2
   noun

   physical position in relation to the surroundings

   the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides

3. 3
   noun

   the piece of land on which something is located, or is to be located

   This would be a great site for the new stadium.

4. 4
   noun

   The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position

   the site of a city or of a house

5. 5
   noun

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

   a site for a church

6. 6
   noun

   The posture or position of a thing.

   1709, A Preliminary Discourse to the Commonitory of Vincentius Lirinensis Concerning the Rule of Faith, in Defence of the Primitive Fathers read in William Reeves, Tertullian, Marcus Minucius Felix, Vincent, Justin, The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minutius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion...[full title extends to over 50 words], A. and J. Churchill, p. 179, And if this be the Shape, and Site, then the Refraction of the Rays coming from above onto the subjacent Ice, being as about Four to Three, they must when coming out of the superior Ice be as about Three to Four.

7. 7
   noun

   A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.

   The data may be divided among a data base system's nodes in several ways. In a fully redundant data base system, each data base site contains a complete copy of the entire data base...

8. 8
   noun

   A website.

   1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi, [G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.

Etymology

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.