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site (sīt)

noun

  1. a piece of land considered from the standpoint of its use for some specified purpose a good site for a town
  2. the place where something is, was, or is to be; location or scene the site of a battle
  3. Comput. website

Etymology: ME < L situs, position, situation < pp. of sinere, to put down, permit, allow < IE base *sei-, to cast out, let fall: see side

transitive verb sited sit′ed, siting sit′·ing

to locate or position on a site

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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