noun
- the act of positing, or placing
- a positing of a proposition; affirmation
- the manner in which a person or thing is placed or arranged; attitude; posture; disposition: in a sitting position
- one's attitude toward or opinion on a subject; stand: his position on foreign aid
- the place where a person or thing is, esp. in relation to others; location; situation; site: the ship's position
- the usual or proper place of a person or thing; station: the players are in position
- a location or condition in which one has the advantage: to jockey for position
- a strategic military site
- a person's relative place, as in society; rank; status
- a place high in society, business, etc.: a man of position
- a post of employment; office; job: to apply for a teaching position
- Finance the long or short commitment of a market trader in securities or commodities
- Music
- the arrangement of the notes of a chord with respect to their relative closeness or distance apart: open position
- any of the fixed locations on the fingerboard of a violin, etc. that the left hand assumes for fingering a particular series of notes
- any of the various points to which a trombone slide may be moved to change the pitch
Origin:
MFr < L positio < positus, pp. of ponere, to place < *posinere < po-, away (< IE base *apo- > L ab, from, away) + sinere, to put, lay: see site