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▪ I. position, n.|pəʊˈzɪʃən, pə-|
Also 6 posycyon, -cion, -tyon, posicion.
[a. F. position, ad. L. positiō-nem a putting, placing, position; affirmation; theme, subject, etc., n. of action from pōnĕre (posit-um) to put, place, set.]
I.
1. The action of positing; the laying down or statement of a proposition or thesis; affirmation, affirmative assertion. Chiefly in Logic and Philos.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. pr. iv. 125 (Camb. MS.) Ffor by grace of possession [L. positionis gratia, ed. 1532 posycion]..I pose þat ther be no prescience. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 234, I do not in position Distinctly speake of her. 1697tr. Burgersdicius his Logic ii. xii. 54 The Disjunctive Syllogism,..if consisting of two Members immediately opposed, may proceed from a Position of one Member to an Eversion of the other. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. v. 175 It exists by the position or institution of its individual or collective author. 1837–8Sir W. Hamilton Logic xvii. (1866) I. 332 A disjunctive syllogism consists..in the reciprocal position or sublation of contradictory characters, by the subsumption of one or other. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xvi. 573 The alternate position and negation leads to an infinite series.
2. A proposition or thesis laid down or stated; something posited; a statement, assertion, tenet.
c1500in Peacock Stat. Cambr. App. A. p. xxii, The Father hath made on Argument agenst his Posytyon in the fyrst mater. 1597Bacon Ess. x. (Arb.) 152 It is a position in the Mathematiques that there is no proportion betweene somewhat and nothing. 1684Contempl. State Man ii. iii. (1699) 147 It was a Position of the Stoicks, that he was not Poor who wanted, but he who was necessitated. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. I. xv. 374 An edict, which contains many extraordinary positions and pretensions. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. II. ii. iv. §4. 122 Hooker..rests his positions on one solid basis, the eternal obligation of natural law. 1845J. H. Newman Ess. Developm. ii. ii. 129, I have called the doctrine of Infallibility an hypothesis:..let it be considered to be a mere position, supported by no direct evidence, but required by the facts of the case.
3. Arith. A method of finding the value of an unknown quantity by positing or assuming one or more values for it, finding by how much the results differ from the actual data of the problem, and then adjusting the error. Also called rule of (false) position, rule of supposition, rule of falsehood, rule of trial and error.
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. ii. Pref., The rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Position, or the Rule of Position, otherwise called the Rule of Falshood... This Rule of False Position is of Two kinds, viz. Single and Double. 1806Hutton Course Math. I. 135 Position is a method of performing certain questions, which cannot be resolved by the common direct rules. Ibid. 136 Double Position is the method of resolving certain questions by means of two suppositions of false numbers.
†4. The action of positing or placing, esp. in a particular order or arrangement; disposition. Obs.
1623Cockeram, Position,..a setting or placing. 1658Phillips, Position (lat.), a putting. 1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 158 You may change the Polarity of many feeble Stones, by a long Position in a contrary posture. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. vii. 288 In my Watch, the Law and Rule of its Motion is the Constitution and Position of its Parts by the Hand and Mind of the skilful Artist. 1735Bertin Chess iii, The Game of Chess consists of two parts, the Offensive, and Defensive;..the Defensive [consists] in the due position of your own [forces], by guarding against your enemy's attack.
5. a. The manner in which a body as a whole, or the several parts of it, are disposed or arranged; disposition, posture, attitude. spec. (a) the disposition of the limbs in a dance step (see also first position (b) s.v. first C, fourth position s.v. fourth C); (b) the posture adopted during sexual intercourse.
eastward position: the position of the officiating priest at the Eucharist, when he stands in front of the holy table or altar and faces the east.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 176 They should lift their Treading Leg so high, as to tire it..after it is raised to so uncommodious a position. 1790Philidor Chess II. 90 In this position it is a drawn game. 1839R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Eng. 79 The position of the beam at half-stroke, horizontal. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xiv, I cannot see you without disturbing my position in this comfortable chair. 1866H. R. Droop North Side of the Table 9 Canon law (which did not enforce an eastward position). 1874(title) Reasons for opposing the (so-called) Eastward Position of the Celebrant. 1888Pall Mall G. 28 Nov. 7/2 Dean Burgon never would allow the ‘eastward position’ to be adopted in Chichester Cathedral. 1891Freeborough Chess Endings 12 There is always the general principle—the grasp of the position. 1893Bp. Stubbs Visit. Charges, Oxford (1907) 159, I have, ever since my ordination in 1848, used the eastward position in the Ante-Communion, and since I was ordained priest in 1850, at the consecration prayer.
(a)1778English Mag. Feb. 59/2 A woman who was ignorant that her first curtsey should be in the third position. 1819M. Edgeworth Let. 17 Apr. (1971) 199 She seems evermore as if she had the fear of the five positions before her eyes. 1884D. Anderson Compl. Ball-Room Guide 10 Second position, put out right foot in a straight line with left heel, right heel about four inches from left heel. 1922[see à terre advb. and adj. phr.]. 1930Craske & Beaumont Theory & Pract. Allegro in Classical Ballet 15 Lower the arms to the fifth position en bas. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xi. 143 Krishtof Bey rose to his feet..and struck the fifth position, brown arms outflung. 1979A. Morice Murder in Outline iii. 26 Carefully placing his feet, right heel to left instep, in the number two position.
(b)1883tr. Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ii. vi. 65 When the woman forcibly holds in her yoni the lingam after it is in, it is called the ‘mare's position’. This is learnt by practice only. 1933E. A. Robertson Ordinary Families vi. 112, I show de shentleman de twenty-seex poseetions of lof? 1969,1971[see missionary a. 1 b]. 1974W. Garner Big enough Wreath v. 60 My pa..always warned me about the Chinese position. 1976Sounds 11 Dec. 4/1 Mickey Gallagher was being particularly adventurous one bedtime with his lady friend, and collapsed from Position Number 368 (look it up yerselves, you cheeky{ddd}) onto the floor and broke his wrist. 1977Times 26 Mar. 12/5 There was actually—this was, maybe, 1938—a chapter on positions. Wow!
b. fig. Mental attitude; the way in which one looks upon or views a subject or question: often passing into the point of view which one occupies in reference to a subject, and so blending with 9.
1905J. Orr Problem O. Test. xii. 435 A more moderate position is taken by Dr. Driver.
6. Mus. The arrangement of the constituent notes of a chord, with respect to their order, or to the intervals between them. († See also quot. 1753.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Position..in music, is used for the putting down the hand in beating time. 1880W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 17 In whatever position they may be taken, Consonant Intervals remain always consonant; Dissonant Intervals, dissonant.
II.
7. a. The place occupied by a thing, or in which it is put; situation, site, station. in position, in its (his, etc.) proper or appropriate place; so out of position.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 H iij, Yf ye knowe parfytely the posycyon, & fygure of all the bladder. 1570Billingsley Euclid i. i. 1 A poynt is materiall, and requireth position and place. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xiii. §10. 77 That our Idea of Place is nothing else, but such a relative Position of any thing, as I have before mentioned. 1696Phillips (ed. 5) s.v., The Respect of a Planet in Astrological Figure, to other Planets and Parts of the Figure, is called his Position. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., A line is said to be given in position..when its situation, bearing, or direction, with regard to some other line, is given. 1774M. Mackenzie Maritime Surv. 25 Having the Distance and Position of two Points A and B. 1840Lardner Geom. 20 The apparent position of an object is a term used in science to express the position of the object so far as it can be determined by the sight. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. iii. ii. (1874) 351 The view which we get of an object depends on the position which we take. 1874In position [see position v. 1]. 1876Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sc. i. (ed. 2) 14 Position is a purely space relation or geometrical conception.
b. Phrases.
angle of position: (a) The angle between any two points subtended at the eye; (b) Astron. The angle between the circles of declination and latitude of a celestial body; (c) The angle between the hour circle passing through a celestial body, and the line joining it and a neighbouring celestial body; so in Geog., the angle between the meridian of a place and the great circle passing through it and some other place. circle of position: any one of six great circles of the celestial sphere passing through the north and south points of the horizon. gun of position: a heavy field-gun, not designed for executing quick movements. line of position or position line: a line on which the observer is computed to be after having taken a bearing.
1571Digges Pantom. i. xxviii. H iv, Notyng vppon youre slate the angle of position from the dimetient to the lyne fiduciall. Ibid. xxxiv. K iij b, Then turne the Diameter of your Semicircle, to euery Towne, Village, Hauen, Rode, or suche like,..noting therewithall in some Table by it selfe the Degrees cut by the Alhidada in the Circle, which I call the Angles of Position. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xix. 31 Circles of Position..do all cross one another in the North and South Points of the Meridian. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Circles of position, are six great circles passing through the intersection of the meridian and the horizon, and dividing the equator into twelve equal parts. 1812Woodhouse Astron. viii. 58 Angle of Position. 1858Greener Gunnery 126 This result once secured, it is obvious that a field-piece or gun of position would become a rifle on a large scale. 1863W. Chauvenet Man. Spherical & Pract. Astron. I. viii. 428 Let the first observation give the position line AA′ (Fig. 35), and let Aa represent, in direction and length, the ship's course and distance sailed between the observations. 1865J. H. C. Coffin Navigation & Nautical Astron. (ed. 2) ix. 224 The nearer the body is to the prime vertical, the more nearly the line of position coincides with a meridian. 1900Daily News 10 Jan. 8/3 The 12-pounder quick-firing garrison artillery gun of 12 cwt.,..is neither a field gun nor a gun of position. 1919G. C. Comstock Summer Line p. iii, The line of position, or Summer line, is generally recognized as the best method for fixing the ship's place by observation of the sun or stars. 1920J. E. Dumbleton Princ. & Pract. Aerial Navigation i. 13 Owing to small errors three position lines will rarely intersect at a point, but a small triangle is formed known as a ‘cocked hat’. 1962Flight Handbk. (ed. 6) xiii. 292 One bearing gives a position-line; two or more are needed for a fix. 1974K. Wilkes Pract. Yacht Navigator ix. 115/1 A position line from observation of a single identifiable object can be established by taking a compass bearing of it.
c. Mil. A site chosen for occupation by an army, usually as having a strategic value.
1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xviii. II. 118 To compel his adversary to relinquish this advantageous position. 1820Scott Monast. ii, A position of considerable strength. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 11 On, on! take forts and storm positions. 1890Nicolay & Hay Lincoln VIII. ix. 241 General Meade..manœuvred to select a position where he would have the advantage.
8. Phonology. The situation of a vowel in an open or closed syllable; spec. in Gr. and L. Prosody, the situation of a short vowel before two consonants or their equivalent, i.e. before a consonant in the same syllable, making the syllable metrically long, as in in-fer-ret-que, con-vex-ī = con-vec-sī.
In such cases it used to be said that the vowel was ‘long by position’; but the evidence of Greek and the history of the sounds in Romanic show that the vowel remained short, while the syllable was metrically long. When both consonants could be taken to the following syllable, the preceding vowel might be ‘in position’ or not, as in te-ne-brās or te-neb-rās. In English and the modern languages generally, a long stressed vowel is often shortened by position, as in weal, wealth; deem, dem-ster; house, husband, Lyne, Lynton.
1580G. Harvey Let. to Spenser Wks. (Grosart) I. 106 Position neither maketh shorte, nor long in oure Tongue, but so farre as we can get hir good leaue. 1582Stanyhurst æneis (Arb.) 12 And soothly..yf the coniunction And were made common in English, yt were not amisse, although yt bee long by position. 1775Ash, Position (in grammar) the state of a vowel placed before two consonants. 1876Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. 512 In the words fātō, mǣstīs both syllables are long by nature: in fāctūs sūbsūnt the four syllables, whose vowels are short by nature, are all lengthened by position. H does not give position any more than the aspirate in Greek.
9. fig.
a. The situation which one metaphorically occupies in relation to others, to facts, or to circumstances; condition.
1827Disraeli Viv. Grey v. xii, Do not believe that I am one who would presume an instant on my position. 1843Prescott Mexico i. vi. (1864) 65 There is no position which affords such scope for ameliorating the condition of man, as that occupied by an absolute ruler over a nation imperfectly civilised. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi. III. 49 In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ix. 64 The position was in some measure an exciting one. 1871B. Stewart Heat §67 We are now in a position to discuss the air thermometer. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 392 Arms were extemporised for an adequate number of citizens, and the city was somehow put into a position to stand a siege.
b. Place in the social scale; social state or standing; status; rank, estate. spec. in social position.
c1832J. S. Mill in F. A. von Hayek J. S. Mill & Harriet Taylor (1951) iii. 61 For a long time the indissolubility of marriage acted powerfully to elevate the social position of women. 1853C. Brontë Villette II. xxviii. 293 Pedigree, social position, and recondite intellectual acquisition, occupied about the same space and place in my interests and thoughts. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xi, His position in society was excellent and secure. 1868Digby's Voy. Medit. Pref. 34 A man of considerable position. 1896Harper's Mag. Apr. 701/2 I've got a good position now, one that I'm not ashamed to ask you to share. 1949M. Mead in M. Fortes Social Struct. 18, I found it impossible to give an adequate sociological statement which did not include the specification of each actor in terms both of his social position and of his personality. 1971P. J. Keating Working Classes in Victorian Fiction iii. 73 The physical and spiritual struggles inherent in their social position. 1976G. Butler Vesey Inheritance vi. 176, I am a young woman of education and social position.
c. An official situation, place, or employment.
1890Cent. Dict. s.v., A position in a bank. 1900Kipling in Daily Express 19 June 4/5 With a view to getting him a ‘position in the city’. 1906Westm. Gaz. 9 May 2/3 The old discussion as to the evolution and history of this special political position—for up to now it has been that rather than an office.
III. 10. attrib. and Comb., as position-relation, position-value; position angle = angle of position (7 b); position-artillery, heavy field-artillery; cf. gun of position in 7 b; so position-battery; position change Genetics, any change in the order of the genes along a chromosome; position effect Genetics, an effect on the phenotypic expression of a gene produced by a difference in its chromosomal position, esp. by its proximity to a mutant gene or to heterochromatin; position error, the variation of a watch when laid in certain positions; position-finder, an apparatus by means of which a gunner is enabled to aim a cannon at an object not visible to him; position-finding, the process of ascertaining one's position or that of a distant object, esp. automatically by radio or similar means; usu. attrib.; position-light, a light carried by a ship which is in company with others to indicate its course at night; position line (see 7 b); position mark, a mark made on a stone or other component part of a structure to indicate the position it is designed to occupy; position micrometer: see quot.; position paper orig. U.S., a written statement of attitude or intentions; position play Chess (see quot. 1960); position player (a) Chess, one who adopts position play; (b) Austral. Football (see quote. 1969); † position poet, ? a poet who composes short pieces containing definite statements (as in commendation of a person); position vector Math., a vector which defines the position of a point.
1893Sir R. Ball Story of Sun 170 The angle between the pole projected on the Sun's disc and the north point is what we call the *position angle.
1898E. A. Campbell (title) Lectures on *Position Artillery.
1937Nature 30 Oct. 761/2 The primary structural change of inversion gives rise to secondary changes such as reduplication and deficiency. These are changes of ‘balance’, and rank with intra-genic changes and *position changes as one of the three effective means of variation. 1952C. P. Blacker Eugenics x. 245 These alterations of chromosome structure resulting from one or more breakages and recombinations have been called..position changes.
1930Jrnl. Genetics XXII. 315 Since the addition of different deletions results in much the same effects, regardless of exactly where the breakage occurred, these are not ‘*position effects’ caused by displacement of certain genes from others previously adjacent to them. 1952Srb & Owen Gen. Genetics x. 201 In many ways, the numerous position effects described in the literature of genetics appear as a bewildering array of vaguely related phenomena. 1974Genetic Res. XXIII. 291 Position effect variegation is now regarded as a general phenomenon but it is in Drosophila that by far the largest number of cases have been described.
1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 24 Only the finer class of watches..are as a rule tested for *position errors. Position errors..are often confounded with a want of isochronism.
1888Daily News 16 July 3/3 The sum of 25,000l. was paid to Major Watkin for an invention of a *position-finder. 1902Sloane Stand. Electr. Dict. 428 The Position Finder is a simplification and amplification of the Range Finder.
1918E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 463 *Position finding system, the term applied to the system used in determining the range and direction to any target from a battery or station. 1947Crowther & Whiddington Sci. at War 57 Another position-finding system in which, however, the aircraft ‘interrogates’ by sending out pulses. 1959A. Hardy Fish & Fisheries vii. 160 The deep-water trawlers have been getting larger, more powerful and more efficiently equipped with echosounding and position-finding apparatus.
1897Daily News 30 Aug. 6/7 When altering the course of his ship, the *position lights were omitted to be hoisted.
1928G. G. Coulton Art & Reformation viii. 145 An inspection..will convince us that the rare marks found otherwise than on the surface are not banker-marks, but *position-marks.
1864Webster, *Position-micrometer, a micrometer for measuring angles of position, having a single thread or wire which is carried round the common focus of the object-glass and eye-glass, and in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the telescope.
1965Guardian 4 Sept. 9/5 Republican leavers..got out an eleven-page policy statement, called a ‘*position paper’. 1972Ld. Gladwyn Mem. xiii. 226 The idea was that all the political Under-Secretaries..should meet every so often and discuss what I suppose would now be called ‘position papers’. 1977Time 7 Mar. 13/1 Carter is just beginning to receive position papers from his advisers on what his policies should be.
1932E. Lasker Man. Chess iv. 166/1 Whereas by combination values are transformed, they are proved and confirmed by ‘*position play’. Thus, position play is antagonistic to combination, as becomes evident when a ‘combinative player’ meets with his counterpart, the ‘position play’. 1960Horowitz & Mott-Smith Point Count Chess (1973) 356 Position play is a strategic move or plan as distinguished from a tactical (combination).
1969Eagleson & McKie Terminol. Austral. Nat. Football iii. 4 *Position player, a variant for placed man [sc. a player who is allocated a fixed position on the field], recorded by four informants.
1589Nashe Pref. Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 14 Epitaphers, and *position Poets haue wee more than a good many. 1881Broadhouse Mus. Acoustics 383 The *position-relation of any two notes forming a given interval is always exactly the same.
1849Otté tr. Humboldt's Cosmos II. 597 Nine figures or characters, according to their *position-value, under the name of the system of the abacus.
1961C. C. T. Baker Dict. Math. 242 If P is the position of a point at any time, and O is a fixed point, the line OP, having length and direction, is a vector, and is denoted by ŌP, or OP. If P is the point (x, y, z), the *position vector is R = ix + jy + kz. 1969Wade & Taylor Contemp. Analytic Geom. vii. 243 When we speak of a position vector it is to be understood that the vector has only one representative and that the initial point of this representative is at the origin.
Hence poˈsitionless a., without a position.
1887W. James in Mind XII. 27 Positionless at first, it [a particular kind of feeling] no sooner appears in the midst of a gang of companions than it is found maintaining the strictest position of its own.
▸ As a mass noun: the state of being favourably or advantageously placed, esp. in a competitive situation; advantageous placing or condition; see also to jockey for position at jockey v. 1d. In Chess, Snooker, and other games of strategy: configuration of play which confers an advantage over an opponent; favourable location or disposition.
1883Knowledge June 334/1 That heavy and subtle wrestling for position which distinguishes the first-class player. 1944Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) v. 18/1 Using the slight undulations of the desert to get hull down and so present the smallest target, they manoeuvred for position. 1950L. H. Dawson Hoyle's Games Modernized (ed. 20) iii. 340 The most successful [pool] player is not necessarily he who can ‘pot’ with the deadliest accuracy, but he who combines potting with effectively playing for position. 1975F. Heer Charlemagne & his World x. 149 This is the elevated ideal that lay behind all the politicking and manoeuvering for position that took place in Rome in 800. 1982R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal xiv. 303 On the streets leading up to Parliament Hill, the proprietors of the fried-chip wagons jostled for position. 1995Snooker Scene May 18/2 Prospects of a 147 were dashed when he ran out of position on the eighth red and had to play for the blue. 2001Hull Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 7 Apr. The Huddersfield player took the brown and then the blue and checked the scoreboard to see that he was one behind after attempting to pot the pink and get position on the black.
▪ II. position, v.|pəʊˈzɪʃən, pə-|
[f. prec. n.]
1. a. trans. To put or set in a particular or appropriate position; to place.
1817P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 151 Had I..positioned the birds myself, I could not have had a more glorious opportunity. 1874J. D. Heath Croquet Player 15 To Position.—An abbreviation for ‘to place in position’,..‘to place a ball in a proper position to make its next point in order’. 1893Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 23 Feb., A brace of submarine guns in the bows..positioned so as to discharge their projectiles at a depth of ten feet below the water line. 1955Sun (Baltimore) 12 Jan. 12/4 The straw is baled, elevated, and positioned on an accompanying truck. 1955Sci. Amer. May 124/1 You first position the hairline of the slider over the caret between the first four balls (1, 2, 3, 4) and the second four (5, 6, 7, 8) in the bottom tier of this rule. 1959Listener 5 Mar. 432/3 Il Tabarro was directed..by Charles Rogers and produced (i.e. positioned, rehearsed dramatically, and so on) by Colin Graham. 1960Practical Wireless XXXVI. 429/1 Beginners would be well advised to position the amplifier so that the underneath parts can be inspected while the power is on. 1967Times Rev. Industry Feb. 90/3 Three two-jet engines positioned in much of the same way as the British Trident. 1979J. Wainwright Tension 62 Uniformed constables had been positioned to re-direct traffic.
b. To determine the position of; to locate.
1881H. W. Nicholson From Sword to Share vi. 40 The later geological observation,..positioning the earliest volcanic action, in this group, on the island of Kanai, and the latest on that of Hawaii.
†2. intr. To take up one's position; to lay down a position or principle. Obs. rare.
1678O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1881) II. 196 Mr Thorp position'd on this thesis. 1703J. Ryther Def. Glorious Gosp. Pref., He had preached and position'd.
Hence poˈsitioned ppl. a., placed, situated; having or occupying a position (social or other); poˈsitioning vbl. n., putting in position; in Chess, arrangement of the men in an advantageous position.
1867F. W. Cosens in Athenæum 29 June 846/3 A very rich maiden more highly positioned than himself. 1896H. F. Cheshire Hastings Chess Tourn. 348 His style of play is firm and tenacious, aiming at accurate positioning and steady crushing rather than at brilliant attacks or rapid finishes.
▸ Marketing (orig. U.S.). To identify or establish (a product, service, or business) as belonging to a particular market sector, esp. for the purposes of promotion in relation to competitors; to promote (a product, service, or business) strategically or distinctively, esp. as fulfilling or exceeding the requirements of a targeted market sector. Also refl.
1955N.Y. Times 24 May 42/2 A new product must be ‘positioned’ in relation to every other product on the market. 1971N.Y. Times 7 Apr. 56/1 (advt.) Should you position Schweppes as a soft drink—or as a mixer? 1980Financial Rev. (Austral.) 28 Mar. 30 ‘Whilst we realise that most Australians regard Pizza Hut as fast food, it is our intention to position ourselves as a fast food service restaurant, rather than fast food,’ Mr Levy says. 1986Marketing Week 29 Aug. 42/2 They come in boxes of 4 × 5 oz flans and are positioned both as a quick snack or..main meal. 1993Byte Dec. 136/1 As recently as 1991, dye-diffusion printers were selling in the $40,000 neighborhood, positioned as preview devices in the prepress environment. 2000DigitalFoto Oct. 76/1 Ricoh is positioning itself as a high-end data collection device for style-conscious executives and dot-commers. |