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lo⋅ca⋅tion

  [loh-key-shuhn]
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–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.
—Idiom
8. on location, Movies. engaged in filming at a place away from the studio, esp. one that is or is like the setting of the screenplay: on location in Rome.
Origin:
1585–95; < L locātiōn- (s. of locātiō) a placing. See locate, -ion

Related forms:
lo⋅ca⋅tion⋅al, adjective
lo⋅ca⋅tion⋅al⋅ly, adverb
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lo·ca·tion   (lō-kā'shən)   
n.  
  1. The act or process of locating.
  2. A place where something is or could be located; a site.
  3. 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.
  4. A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.

[Latin locātiō, locātiōn-, a placing, from locātus, past participle of locāre, to place; see locate.]
lo·ca'tion·al adj.
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Location

Lo*ca"tion\, n. [L. locatio, fr. locare.]

1. The act or process of locating.

2. Situation; place; locality. --Locke.

3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. [U.S.]

4. (Law) (a) (Civil Law) A leasing on rent. (b) (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. --Wharton. (c) (Amer. Law) 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. --Burrill. Bouvier.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : location
Spanish: lugar,
German: der Standort,
Japanese: 位置
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