ubication
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
An adaptation of the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin ubicātiō (whence the Spanish ubicación and the Portuguese ubicação), from the assumed *ubicō (whence the Spanish ubicar), from the Classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ubi (“where”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
ubication (countable and uncountable, plural ubications)
- The condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; location; whereness; ubiety.
- 1644, Digby, Nat. Soule, v., §9., 400:
- We conceiue these modifications if the thing, like substances; and…we call them by substantiue names, Whitenesse, Action, Vbication, Duration, &c.
- 1661, Glanvill, Van Dogm., 101:
- Relations, Ubications, Duration, the vulgar Philosophy admits into the list of something.
- 1699, Burnet, 39 Art., xxviii. (1700), 324:
- They are accustomed to think that Ubication, or the being in a Place, is but an Accident to a Substance.
- 1837, Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sci., II., vi., ii., § 5., 45:
- Arriaga, who wrote in 1639,…suggests that the board affects the upper weight, which it does not touch, by its ubication, or whereness.
- 1866, T.N. Harper, Peace through Truth, Ser. i., 212:
- The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication.
- 1892 August 5th, Standard:
- The constant identity of the ubication and direction of the lines [in Mars] proved their connection with the soil.
- 1952, Applied Mechanics Reviews, №?, page 103/2:
- The ubication of such a joint should be obtained as the point of intersection of the three planes normal to the directions of the lines joining the joint considered with the other three.
- 1644, Digby, Nat. Soule, v., §9., 400:
Related terms
Translations
condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position
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References
- “Ubication” listed on page 2/1–2 of § ii (U; ed. William Alexander Craigie) of part i (Ti–U; 1926) of volume X of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)