has particulars: here, there, somewhere, bilocation, seat, home, base, home, outer space, space, jungle, north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest, earth, line, point, part, region, region, whereabouts, sodom, mountain pass, notch, pass, space

Derived forms verb locate₄, verb locate₁, verb locate₃, verb locate₂

location(n = noun.act) emplacement, locating, placement, position, positioning - the act of putting something in a certain place; Array

is a kind of activity

has particulars: stratification, apposition, collocation, juxtaposition, interposition, intervention, orientation, planting, implantation, repositioning, set, superposition, fingering, superposition

Derived forms verb locate₄, verb locate₃

location(n = noun.act) fix, localisation, localization, locating - a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target"

is a kind of determination, finding

has particulars: echo sounding, echolocation

Derived forms verb locate₁, verb locate₂

location(n = noun.artifact) Array - a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made; "they shot the film on location in Nevada"

Antonym: studio

CIDE DICTIONARY

location, n. [L. locatio, fr. locare.].

The act or process of locating. [1913 Webster]
Situation; place; locality. Locke. [1913 Webster]
That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. [1913 Webster]
A leasing on rent. Burrill. Bouvier. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

location, n.
1 a particular place; the place or position in which a person or thing is.
2 the act of locating or process of being located.
3 an actual place or natural setting featured in a film or broadcast, as distinct from a simulation in a studio (filmed entirely on location).
4 S.Afr. an area where Blacks are obliged to live, usu. on the outskirts of a town or city.

Etymology

L locatio (as LOCATE)

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THESAURUS

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

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ROGET THESAURUS

location

Circumstance

N circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point, terms, regime, footing, standing, status, occasion, juncture, conjunctive, contingency, predicament, emergence, emergency, exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push, occurrence, turning point, bearings, how the land lies, surroundings, context, environment, location, contingency, dependence (uncertainty), causation, attribution, circumstantial, given, conditional, provisional, critical, modal, contingent, incidental, adventitious, limitative, in the circumstances, under the circumstances, the circumstances, conditions, thus, in such wise, accordingly, that being the case, such being the case, in view of the circumstances, that being so, sith, since, seeing that, as matters stand, as things go, as times go, conditionally, provided, if, in case, if so, if so be, if it be so, depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions, if it so happen, if it so turn out, in the event of, in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event, provisionally, unless, without, according to circumstances, according to the occasion, as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be, as the case may be, as the wind blows, pro re nata, yet are my sins not those of circumstance.

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.

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