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location

noun
/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/UK/loʊˈkeɪʃən/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.

  1. borrowed from locatio

Definitions

  1. A particular point or place in physical space.

  2. An act of locating.

    • The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.

  3. An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people

    An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.

    • It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A leasing on rent.

    2. A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

    3. The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land,…

      The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc

    4. An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided…

      An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

The neighborhood

Derived

bilocation, central location test, co-location, cytolocation, delocation, echolocation, electrolocation, elocation, emergency location transmitter, emergency location transponder, geolocation, immunolocation, interlocation, intralocation, location-agnostic, location arithmetic, locationism, locationist, location map, macrolocation, measure of location, micro-location, microlocation, mislocation, multilocation, on location, personal location beacon, personal location radiobeacon, photolocation, radiolocation, relocation, storage location, translocation

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at location. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at location. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at location

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA