The scene or setting in which something takes place; a locale, The court where a lawsuit may or should be tried, usually because the cause of action arose in that locality, In law_ The place or neighborhood of a crime or cause of action; in modern times, the county or corresponding division within which in consequence the jury must be gathered and the cause tried, The statement, usually at the top or in the margin, of an indictment or declaration of complaint, indicating the county for trial, A similar statement in an affidavit indicating the place where it was taken and the oath was administered

The state or quality of being variant or variable; variation, A discrepancy between two statements or documents, especially between the charge in a criminal indictment and the evidence presented, Chemistry The number of thermodynamic variables, such as temperature and pressure, required to specify a state of equilibrium of a system, given by the phase rule; the degrees of freedom of a system