locating

lo·cate

L0220800 (lō′kāt′, lō-kāt′)v. lo·cat·ed, lo·cat·ing, lo·cates v.tr.1. To determine or specify the position or limits of: locate Albany on the map; managed to locate the site of the old artists' colony.2. To find by searching, examining, or experimenting: locate the source of error.3. To place at a certain location; station or situate: locate an agent in Rochester.v.intr. To become established; settle: new businesses that have located in town.

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[Latin locāre, locāt-, to place, from locus, place.]

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lo′cat′a·ble adj.lo′cat′er n.

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Noun	1.	locating - the act of putting something in a certain placepositioning, emplacement, location, placement, positionactivity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"stratification - the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germinationjuxtaposition, collocation, apposition - the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"interposition, intervention - the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among othersorientation - the act of orientingplanting - the act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway"implantation - the act of planting or setting in the groundrepositioning - the act of placing in a new positionset - the act of putting something in position; "he gave a final set to his hat"superposition - the placement of one thing on top of anotherfingering - the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrumentsuperposition - (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide
	2.	locating - a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target"localization, localisation, location, fixdetermination, finding - the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation; "the determination of molecular structures"echo sounding, echolocation - determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it