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location

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Definition of location

noun

  • 1a particular place or position:the property is set in a convenient location
  • an actual place or natural setting in which a film or broadcast is made, as distinct from a simulation in a studio:the movie was filmed entirely on location
  • [mass noun] the action of locating someone or something:the location of new housing beyond the existing built-up areas
  • a position or address in computer memory.
  • 2South African dated an area where black South Africans were obliged by apartheid laws to live, usually on the outskirts of a town or city. The term was later replaced by township.

Derivatives

locational

adjective

Origin:

late 16th century: from Latin locatio(n-), from the verb locare (see locate)

location in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of location in the US English dictionary
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