n. 1. The act or process of locating: Location of the lost hikers took two days. 2. A place where something is or could be located; a site. 3. A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot: filming a Western on location in the Mexican desert. 4. A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off. [Latin locātiō, locātiōn-, a placing, from locātus, past participle of locāre, to place; see LOCATE.] lo·cation·al adj. |
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