location
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From Latin locatio (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”).
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location (plural locations)
- A particular point or place in physical space.
- An act of locating.
- 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:
- 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 [1]:
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- (a place): place
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place
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[edit] External links
- location in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- location in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- location at OneLook Dictionary Search
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From Latin locatio, from locatum, from locare (verb).
[edit] Noun
location f. (plural locations)
