location

[loh-key-shuh n] /loʊˈkeɪ ʃən/
noun
1.
a place of settlement, activity, or residence:
This town is a good location for a young doctor.
2.
a place or situation occupied:
a house in a fine location.
3.
a tract of land of designated situation or limits:
a mining location.
4.
Movies. a place outside of the studio that is used for filming a movie, scene, etc.
5.
Computers. any position on a register or memory device capable of storing one machine word.
6.
the act of locating; state of being located.
7.
Civil Law. a letting or renting.
Idioms
8.
on location, Movies. engaged in filming at a place away from the studio, especially one that is or is like the setting of the screenplay:
on location in Rome.
Origin
1585-95; < Latin locātiōn- (stem of locātiō) a placing. See locate, -ion
Related forms
locational, adjective
locationally, adverb
interlocation, noun
nonlocation, noun
Can be confused
local, locale, locality, location.
Examples from the web for location
  • Move it into position in the yard, marking with a trowel each corner post's location.
  • Begin by selecting a location for your compost pile.
  • In this way, each tissue type must have the active chromosomes in virtually the same location.
  • Much attention was paid to emergency dispatchers' efforts to pinpoint the location of cell-phone callers a year ago.
  • Its strategic location makes it courted by the great powers.
  • Scientists have discovered that the dome serves as a key location for feeding, breeding, and calving.
  • The environmental benefit to moving the material is that it is easier to guard and monitor in a central location.
  • Each of these affects the types of plants you can grow in a particular location.
  • Your location largely determines how well your solar panels work throughout the year.
  • It's possible they will find not a difference in the level of development, but a difference in the location of development.
British Dictionary definitions for location

location

/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
noun
1.
a site or position; situation
2.
the act or process of locating or the state of being located
3.
a place outside a studio where filming is done: shot on location
4.
(in South Africa)
  1. a Black African or Coloured township, usually located near a small town See also township (sense 4)
  2. (formerly) an African tribal reserve
5.
(computing) a position in a memory capable of holding a unit of information, such as a word, and identified by its address
6.
(Roman law, Scots law) the letting out on hire of a chattel or of personal services
Word Origin
C16: from Latin locātiō, from locāre to place
Word Origin and History for location
n.

"position, place," 1590s, from Latin locationem (nominative locatio), noun of action from past participle stem of locare (see locate); Hollywood sense of "place outside a film studio where a scene is filmed" is from 1914.

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