location

[loh-key-shuh n]

noun

a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.

a place or situation occupied: a house in a fine location.

a tract of land of designated situation or limits: a mining location.

Movies. a place outside of the studio that is used for filming a movie, scene, etc.

Computers. any position on a register or memory device capable of storing one machine word.

the act of locating; state of being located.

Civil Law. a letting or renting.

Idioms

on location, Movies. engaged in filming at a place away from the studio, especially one that is or is like the setting of the screenplay: on location in Rome.

Origin of location

1585–95; < Latin locātiōn- (stem of locātiō) a placing. See locate, -ion

Related formslo·ca·tion·al, adjectivelo·ca·tion·al·ly, adverbin·ter·lo·ca·tion, nounnon·lo·ca·tion, noun

Can be confusedlocal locale locality location

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British Dictionary definitions for locational

location

noun

a site or position; situation

the act or process of locating or the state of being located

a place outside a studio where filming is doneshot on location

(in South Africa)

a Black African or Coloured township, usually located near a small townSee also township (def. 4)
(formerly) an African tribal reserve

computing a position in a memory capable of holding a unit of information, such as a word, and identified by its address

Roman law Scots law the letting out on hire of a chattel or of personal services

Word Origin for location

C16: from Latin locātiō, from locāre to place

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Word Origin and History for locational

location

"position, place," 1590s, from Latin locationem (nominative locatio), noun of action from past participle stem of locare (see locate); Hollywood sense of "place outside a film studio where a scene is filmed" is from 1914.