Definition of Locate. Meaning of Locate. Synonyms of Locate

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Definition of Locate

Locate
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.

Meaning of Locate from wikipedia

- Look up locate or locates in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Locate may refer to: Locate (finance) Locator software, in computing Locate (Unix), Linux...
- A locative adverb is a type of adverb that refers to a location or to a combination of a location and a relation to that location. Generally, a locative...
- locate is a Unix utility which serves to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by the updatedb command...
- Look up locator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Locator may refer to: One who locates, or is entitled to locate, a land or mining claim Lokator (in...
- Locative media or location-based media (LBM) is a virtual medium of communication functionally bound to a location. The physical implementation of locative...
- A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer...
- finance, a locate is 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...
- An electronic apex locator is an electronic device used in endodontics to determine the position of the apical constriction and thus determine the length...
- An online locator service (also known as location finder, store finder, or store locator, or similar) is a feature found on websites of businesses with...
- In cartography, a locator map, or just a locator, is typically a simple map used to show the location of a particular geographic region within its larger...