Location

6 definitions found

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

  Location \Lo*ca"tion\, n. [L. locatio, fr. locare.]
     1. The act or process of locating.
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     2. Situation; place; locality. --Locke.
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     3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in
        place. [U.S.]
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "location":
     allocation, arable land, assignment, barnyard, barton, bearings,
     bringing to light, case, casual discovery, catching, cattle ranch,
     chance discovery, chicken farm, circumstance, collective farm,
     collocation, condition, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm,
     demesne, demesne farm, deployment, deposit, deposition, detection,
     determination, determining, disclosure, discovery, disposition,
     distinguishment, dry farm, dude ranch, emplacement, espial, estate,
     excavation, exhumation, exposure, factory farm, fallow, farm,
     farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, find,
     finding, finding out, fix, footing, fruit farm, fur farm,
     grain farm, grange, grassland, hacienda, homecroft, homefarm,
     homestead, invention, jam, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lading, loading,
     locale, localization, locating, locus, lot, lucky strike, mains,
     manor farm, modality, mode, orchard, packing, pass, pasture, pen,
     pickle, pinpointing, place, placement, placing, plantation, plight,
     point, position, positioning, posting, posture, poultry farm,
     predicament, putting, ranch, rancheria, rancho, rank, recognition,
     rediscovery, reposition, revelation, serendipity, setting,
     sheep farm, site, situation, spot, spotting, standing, state,
     station, stationing, status, steading, stock farm, storage,
     stowage, strike, toft, tracking down, treasure trove, trouvaille,
     trove, truck farm, uncovering, unearthing, where
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  location
       
          {memory location}
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LOCATION, contracts. A contract by which the temporary use of a subject, or 
  the work or service of a person, is given for an ascertained hire. 1 Bell's 
  Com. B. 2, pt. 3, c. 2, s. 4, art. 2, Sec. 1, page 255. Vide Bailment; Hire. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LOCATION, estates. Among surveyors, who are authorized by public authority 
  to lay out lands by a particular warrant, the act of selecting the land 
  designated in the warrant and surveying it, is called its location. In 
  Pennsylvania, it is an application made by any person for land, in the 
  office of the secretary of the late land office of Pennsylvania, and entered 
  in the books of said office, numbered and sent to the surveyor general's 
  office. Act June 25, 1781, Sec. 2, 2 Sm. Laws, 7.