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location meaning

EN[loʊˈkeɪʃən]
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WLocation
  • Location or locating may refer to:
  • In geography:
  • Location (geography),
  • Absolute location, describing a position on the surface of the Earth
  • Location-allocation, used in geographic information systems
  • Location, West Virginia, a community in the United States
  • NounPLlocationsSUF-ation
    1. A particular point or place in physical space.
      1. 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.
    2. An act of locating.
      1. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months.
          • A second limitation is the lack of measurement of both handgrip force and ball impact location in the stringbed.
          • For example, procellariiform species initially use olfaction to detect a prey’s location and then use vision for prey capture [21 , 22 ].
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • The stickiness of a cellphone might be measured by its ability to tell correct time, locate its user, and allow its user to remain connected regardless of location.
          • Indication: anatomic or pathophysiologic indication includes venous diameter within 2–20 mm, reflux time ≥0.5 seconds and distance from the skin ≥5 mm or subfascial location.

      Meaning of location for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "location" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
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