location

Meaning

1. A particular point or place in physical space.
2. An act of locating.
3. An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
4. A leasing on rent.
5. A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
6. 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
7. An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

Concepts

location

place

position

site

spot

situation

whereabouts

venue

area

locality

seat

address

placement

point

locating

locus

region

where

field

locale

post

station

scene

emplacement

positioning

movement

village

space

disposition

fix

localisation

localization

room

direction

whereabout

job

lie

cell

township

land

appointment

capacity

office

piazza

plaza

public square

square

abode

accommodation

town

fixed position

mapping out

base

side

hiding place

centre

site of rite

section

background

the whereabouts

possession

local position

occurrence

quarter

ubiety

condition

layout

distribution

design

pattern

ordering

habitation

part

finding

lodgement

lodgment

setting

element

on unit on

primitive

unit

unit element

bank

memory cell

memory location

storage allocation

storage cell

storage element

storage location

store cell

store location

residential area

occupation

lot

locative case

situs

LOC

bay

berth

chair

filling

mend

niche

patch

slot

deployment

deposit

deposition

insertion

investment

investing

planting

dwelling place

encampment

arrangement

container

that is

be located

found

rest

orientation

person

arena

premises

stead

collocation

placing

radication

locations

placements

rankings

spacing

outpost

zone

put

set

𐑊𐐬𐐿𐐩𐑇𐐲𐑌

Pronounced as (IPA)

/loʊˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.