location
nounUK /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/ · US /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
7 senses
- 1A particular point or place in physical space.
- 2An act of locating.
- 3An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white…
- 4A leasing on rent.
- 5A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a…
- 6The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the…
- 7An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and…
1
A particular point or place in physical space.
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
2
An act of locating.
- The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location
3
South Africa An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, page 188:
4
Law A leasing on rent.
7
Kenya An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
- Synonyms
- a place
- Derived terms
33 terms
bilocation, central location test, co-location, cytolocation, delocation, echolocation, electrolocation, elocation, emergency location transmitter, emergency location transponder, geolocation, immunolocation, interlocation, intralocation, location-agnostic, location arithmetic, locationism, locationist, location map, macrolocation, measure of location, micro-location, microlocation, mislocation, multilocation, on location, personal location beacon, personal location radiobeacon, photolocation, radiolocation, relocation, storage location, translocation