American English pronunciation
How to pronounce locating
IPA transcription: ['loʊ,keɪtɪŋ]
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Noun
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the act of putting something in a certain place
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a determination of the place where something is
“he got a good fix on the target”
Verb
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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”
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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”
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take up residence and become established
“The immigrants settled in the Midwest”
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assign a location to
“The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles”
Usage examples
- More typically, the first step in locating a bug is to reproduce it reliably.
- Action on locating hostile artillery depends on policy and circumstances.
- When echo-locating, the sperm whale emits a directionally focused beam of broadband clicks.
- He also attended the Nassau Christian Academy before relocating to the United States.
- This approach to allocating the fractional seats is called the largest remainder method.
- After relocating to North America, he directed the horror film "Of Unknown Origin".
- Twenty-one employees are relocating from Bristol.
- It was named for Horace Follett, a locating engineer for the line.
- Ball represented eastern capitalists in locating lands during the "wildcat banking" era.
- The health service is allocating over a billion pounds to the annual budget.