LOCATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locating mean? 

• LOCATING (noun)
  The noun LOCATING has 2 senses:

1. the act of putting something in a certain place

2. a determination of the place where something is

  Familiarity information: LOCATING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of putting something in a certain place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning

Hypernyms ("locating" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locating"):

stratification (the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination)

apposition; collocation; juxtaposition (the act of positioning close together (or side by side))

interposition; intervention (the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others)

orientation (the act of orienting)

planting (the act of fixing firmly in place)

implantation (the act of planting or setting in the ground)

repositioning (the act of placing in a new position)

set (the act of putting something in position)

superposition (the placement of one thing on top of another)

fingering (the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument)

superposition ((geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A determination of the place where something is

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fix; localisation; localization; locating; location

Context example:

he got a good fix on the target

Hypernyms ("locating" is a kind of...):

determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locating"):

echo sounding; echolocation (determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it)

 Context examples 

A means of identifying and locating an individual device on a communication network.

(Network Address, NCI Thesaurus)

It is highly unlikely, in my view, that these resources were of major importance in locating ahu during prehistory.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

A branch of computer or library science relating to the storage, locating, searching, and selecting, upon demand, relevant data on a given subject.

(Information Storage and Retrieval, NCI Thesaurus)

This causes an offset in position of the explosion site from the geometric center, determined by locating the center of the circular remnant.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

The sun came out, and he succeeded in locating the points of the compass, though he knew now that he was lost.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A collective term for precoordinated organ/neoplasm headings locating neoplasms by organ, as BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DUODENAL NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; etc.

(Neoplasm by Site, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A measure of resolution used when a system's response y (such as image-displayed activity concentration) to an ideal infinitely narrow spatially distributed input shows a width in its values surrounding a maximum when plotted against a locating variable x (such as distance relative to this input location).

(Full Width at Half Maximum, NCI Thesaurus)

Research in the Niassa National Reserve reveals that by using specialised calls to communicate and cooperate with each other, people and wild birds can significantly increase their chances of locating vital sources of calorie-laden food.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They had difficulty in locating the sister, Catherine.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)