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語源

Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate +‎ -ion.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA: /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

location (plural 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; a 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.
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
7. (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

同意語

• (a place): place

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → German: Location

参照

Further reading

• “location”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “location”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “location”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• colation, coontail