transitive verb located -·cat′ed, locating -·cat′·ing

1. to mark off or designate the site of (a mining claim, etc.)
2. to establish in a certain place offices located downtown
3. to discover the position of after a search to locate a lost object
4. to show the position of to locate Guam on a map
5. to assign to a particular place, function, occupation, etc.

Etymology: < L locatus, pp. of locare, to place < locus: see local

intransitive verb