location
English
/loʊˈkeɪʃən/, /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
noun
Definitions
- A particular point or place in physical space.
- An act of locating.
- (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
- (legal) A leasing on rent.
- (legal) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- (legal) 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.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locationis, locatio (a placing).
Origin
Latin
locationis, locatio
Gloss
a placing
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Robertsonian translocation English
- bilocation English
- co-location English
- colocation English
- cotranslocation English
- delocation English
- echo English
- echolocation English
- echolocational English
- electrolocation English
- elocation English
- geolocation English
- geolocational English
- hypertranslocation English
- immunolocation English
- interlocation English
- locational English
- locationality English
- locationally English
- locationism English
- locationist English
- micro-location English
- mislocation English
- multilocation English
- multilocational English
- nonlocational English
- photorelocation English
- posttranslocation English
- pretranslocation English
- radiolocation English
- radiolocational English
- relocation English
- retranslocation English
- retrotranslocation English
- sublocation English
- translin English
- translocation English
- translocational English
- vibroecholocation English
- locationis, locatio Latin
- locatie Dutch, Flemish
- ロケーション Japanese
- relokasyon Cebuano
- echo
- translin
- elocation
- colocation
- locational
- delocation
- relocation
- bilocation
- mislocation
- geolocation
- locationist
- co-location
- sublocation
- locationism
- echolocation
- locationally
- interlocation
- multilocation
- geolocational
- locationality
- translocation
- radiolocation
- nonlocational
- micro-location
- echolocational
- immunolocation
- retranslocation
- electrolocation
- cotranslocation
- multilocational
- photorelocation
- translocational
- radiolocational
- pretranslocation
- posttranslocation
- vibroecholocation
- hypertranslocation
- retrotranslocation
- Robertsonian translocation