# location

Pronunciation: say "loh-KAY-shuhn" US /loʊˈkeɪʃən/, UK /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/

## Noun

1. A specific spot or place in the physical world, such as where something stands or happens.
   - Simple: A particular place or spot where something is.
   - _The location of the new hospital, just off the highway, makes it easy for ambulances from three towns to reach._
   - _The bakery's new location is just two blocks from the train station._
2. A real site outside the studio where a film or television crew shoots scenes, as when a movie is made on location.
   - Simple: A real place outside a studio where people film parts of a movie or TV show.
   - _The cast spent three weeks shooting on location in the Moroccan desert._
   - _Producers scouted several locations before choosing an old farmhouse for the pilot episode._
3. An act of locating; the fixing or finding of a position.
   - Simple: The act of finding or fixing where something is.
   - _Radar made the location of enemy ships far easier._
   - _Accurate location of the fault line depends on a dense network of sensors._
4. In South Africa, a racially segregated urban area reserved for non-white residents, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid; a township. *(South Africa)*
   - Simple: In South Africa in the past, an area of a town where only Black and other non-white people were allowed to live.
   - _Brutus wrote of the sounds of apartheid, of the townships and the locations._
   - _The location lay across the railway from the white suburbs, out of sight and out of mind._

## Other meanings

- (noun) In US law, the marking out of the boundaries of a piece of land, or the identifying of its site, according to the description in an entry, plan, or map.
- (noun) In law, the letting of a thing, or of a person's services, for rent or hire.
- (noun) In Kenya, an administrative region below counties and subcounties, itself divided into sublocations.

## Origin

Latin locus ("a place") gave locare ("to place, put, set") and then locatio, locationis ("a placing"), which English borrowed; it amounts to locate plus the suffix -ion.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/location (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).