Location definition

lō-kāshən
locations
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A place where something is or could be located; a site.
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The identification of one's current physical location on the planet. Turning Location on in a phone or tablet activates the GPS radio in the device. See location app and GPS.
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A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.
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A locating or being located.
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Position in space; place where a factory, house, etc. is or is to be; situation.
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The definition of a location is the place where something is or where something is occurring.

An example of location is the train station.

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(film) An outdoor set or setting, away from the studio, where scenes are filmed.
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A particular point or place in physical space.
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An act of locating.
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(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
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The act or process of locating.

Location of the lost hikers took two days.

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An area marked off or designated for a specific purpose.
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A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot.

Filming a Western on location in the Mexican desert.

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Noun

Singular:
location
Plural:
locations

Origin of location

  • Latin locātiō locātiōn- a placing from locātus past participle of locāre to place locate

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

  • From Latin locatio (“a placing"), from locare (“to place, put, set, let"), from locus (“a place").

    From Wiktionary

Location Sentence Examples

  • Why are the time and location different?

  • Was it the location or the fact that it needed charged?

  • The assassin bumped fists with his, and Gabe conveyed the location of Deidre's apartment.

  • Now it held about two dozen people, some climbers preparing their equipment and photographers availing themselves of the excellent location where they could look straight down on the climbers below them.

  • She waved her hand at the bed, as if to indicate the location of his foul deed.

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