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locating::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fix, localisation, localization, location |
| Type of | finding, determination |
| Has types | echo sounding, echolocation |
locating::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning |
| Type of | activity |
| Has types | interposition, intervention, juxtaposition, orientation, planting, repositioning, set, stratification, superposition, apposition, collocation, fingering, implantation |
Examples of locating
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They worked on using map scale and locating places using longitude and latitude.
From the DesMoinesRegister.com
Days when I have success, I'm locating my sinker well and days I don't, it's up.
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Locating such a spot will take a lot of time in the woods and a lot of scouting.
From the timesunion.com
He has had difficulty locating his pitches down in the strike zone consistently.
From the stltoday.com
After locating our tree, we were treated to nonstop action for 45 minutes or so.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The technique for locating the printed area correctly on each page was also new.
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Map of central Paris locating, by number, the top 10 must-see sights and places.
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Similar systems are being developed as a means of locating cars reported stolen.
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That includes chasing down vendors, and virtually trying on and locating dresses.
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- Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing"
- Situate: determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property"
- Assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
- Settle: take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
- (locating) placement: the act of putting something in a certain place
- (locating) localization: a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target"
- In finance, a locate refers to an approval from a broker that needs to be obtained prior to effecting a short sale in any equity security, i.e. to "locate" securities available for borrowing.
- Locate is a Unix utility first created in 1983 used to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by updatedb or a daemon and compressed using incremental encoding. It is significantly faster than find, but requires the database to be updated regularly.
- Locating is a process used to determine the location of one position relative to other defined reference positions. Locating is applied for location measuring of mobile objects and is not to be confused with surveying, which is utilized in reference to stationary terrestrial objects. ...
