location

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made

   they shot the film on location in Nevada

2. 2
   noun

   A particular point or place in physical space.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   An act of locating.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.

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

5. 5
   noun

   a point or extent in space

6. 6
   noun

   a determination of the place where something is

7. 7
   noun

   the act of putting something in a certain place

8. 8
   noun

   A leasing on rent.

Etymology

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