location

location
locational, adj.locationally, adv.
/loh kay"sheuhn/, n.
1. a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
2. a place or situation occupied: a house in a fine location.
3. a tract of land of designated situation or limits: a mining location.
4. Motion Pictures. a place outside of the studio that is used for filming a movie, scene, etc.
5. Computers. any position on a register or memory device capable of storing one machine word.
6. the act of locating; state of being located.
7. Civil Law. a letting or renting.
8. on location, Motion Pictures. engaged in filming at a place away from the studio, esp. one that is or is like the setting of the screenplay: on location in Rome.
[1585-95; < L location- (s. of locatio) a placing. See LOCATE, -ION]

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