In-situ definition

ĭn sēto͝o, sī-, sĭcho͝o
In the original position.
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In position; in its original place.
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In its original position or place.
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Alternative spelling of in situ.
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The definition of in situ is in position or in its original place.

An example of an in situ position is when a famous painting found on a church wall is left where it is hanging rather than being moved.

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Origin of in-situ

  • Latin in sitū in in sitū ablative of situs place

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin in + sitū (ablative singular of situs).

    From Wiktionary

In-situ Sentence Examples

  • These furrows have apparently been cut in situ with a very accurate engine; for not the slightest departure from parallelism can be detected in any of the movable webs relative to the fixed webs.

  • This surface drifting water is cold and as it enters into intermediate zones it remains colder than the water in situ there and is therefore denser; it sinks below the surface and continues to flow along the bottom either back to the polar regions or towards the equator.

  • The eggs are fertilized, practically in the ovary, and develop in situ.

  • It is a hexastyle peripteros with fourteen columns on each side, and is remarkably well-preserved, both pediments and the epistyle at the sides being still in situ.

  • In Yemen and Hadramut especially these ruins abound, and in some cases inscriptions seem to be still in situ.

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