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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LO'CATING, ppr. Placing; designating the place of.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]
2: a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" [syn: localization, localisation, location, locating, fix]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Moby Thesaurus

allocation, assignment, bringing to light, casual discovery, catching, chance discovery, collocation, deployment, deposit, deposition, detection, determination, determining, disclosure, discovery, disposition, distinguishment, emplacement, espial, excavation, exhumation, exposure, find, finding, finding out, invention, lading, loading, localization, location, lucky strike, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, putting, recognition, rediscovery, reposition, revelation, serendipity, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, strike, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncovering, unearthing