locationとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

location (複数形 locations)

1. A particular point or place in physical space.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     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.
   • 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:

     The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.

3. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
   • 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)

     It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]

4. (law) A leasing on rent.
5. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

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6. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.

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同意語

• (a place): place

派生語

• echolocation
• geolocation
• macrolocation
• microlocation

関連する語

• local
• localize
• locate
• locational
• locative
• locator

Further reading

• location in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• location in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• location at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• colation