locator

[loh-key-ter, loh-key-ter]

a person who locates something.

a person who determines or establishes the boundaries of land or a mining claim.

Sometimes lo·cat·er.

Origin of locator

1600–10; < Latin locātor a contractor, lessor, equivalent to locā(re) (see locate) + -tor -tor

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Word Origin and History for locater

c.1600, of persons, from Latin locator, agent noun from locare (see locate). Of things which locate, from 1902.

locater in Medicine

[lō′kā′tər]

An instrument or apparatus for finding the position of a foreign object in tissue.