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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Locate \Lo"cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Located}; p. pr & vb n.
{Locating}.] [L. locatus p. p. of locare to place fr locus
place See {Local}.]
1. To place to set in a particular spot or position.
The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him
were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. --B. F.
Westcott
2. To designate the site or place of to define the limits
of as to locate a public building; to locate a mining
claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
That part of the body in which the sense of touch is
located. --H. Spencer.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
locating
n 1: the act of putting something in a certain place or location
[syn: {location}, {placement}, {position}, {positioning},
{emplacement}, {situating}]
2: a determination of the location of something "he got a good
fix on the target" [syn: {localization}, {localisation}, {location},
{fix}]
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