Locating

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Locate \Lo"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Located}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Locating}.] [L. locatus, p. p. of locare to place, fr. locus
     place. See {Local}.]
     1. To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
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              The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him
              were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. --B. F.
                                                    Westcott.
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     2. To designate the site or place of; to define the limits
        of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining
        claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
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              That part of the body in which the sense of touch is
              located.                              --H. Spencer.
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     3. To discover the location or site of; as, to locate the
        source of a radio transmission; to locate a leak; to
        locate the malfunction in a system.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  locating \locating\ n.
     1. the act of putting something in a certain place or
        location.
  
     Syn: location, placement, position, positioning, emplacement,
          situating.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. a determination of the location of something.
  
     Syn: localization, localisation, location, fix.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  locating
       n 1: the act of putting something in a certain place or location
            [syn: {placement}, {location}, {position}, {positioning},
             {emplacement}]
       2: a determination of the location of something; "he got a good
          fix on the target" [syn: {localization}, {localisation}, {location},
           {fix}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "locating":
     allocation, assignment, bringing to light, casual discovery,
     catching, chance discovery, collocation, deployment, deposit,
     deposition, detection, determination, determining, disclosure,
     discovery, disposition, distinguishment, emplacement, espial,
     excavation, exhumation, exposure, find, finding, finding out,
     invention, lading, loading, localization, location, lucky strike,
     packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting,
     putting, recognition, rediscovery, reposition, revelation,
     serendipity, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage,
     strike, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncovering,
     unearthing