different between ubication vs location

English

Alternative forms

• vbication

Etymology

An adaptation of the New Latin ubic?ti? (whence the Spanish ubicación and the Portuguese ubicação), from the assumed *ubic? (whence the Spanish ubicar), from the Classical Latin ubi (“where”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ju?b??ke???n/

Noun

ubication (countable and uncountable, plural ubications)

1. The condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; location; whereness; ubiety.
   • 1644, Digby, Nat. Soule, v., §9., 400:

     We conceiue these modifications if the thing, like substances; and…we call them by substantiue names, Whitenesse, Action, Vbication, Duration, &c.

   • 1661, Glanvill, Van Dogm., 101:

     Relations, Ubications, Duration, the vulgar Philosophy admits into the list of something.

   • 1699, Burnet, 39 Art., xxviii. (1700), 324:

     They are accustomed to think that Ubication, or the being in a Place, is but an Accident to a Substance.

   • 1837, Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sci., II., vi., ii., § 5., 45:

     Arriaga, who wrote in 1639,…suggests that the board affects the upper weight, which it does not touch, by its ubication, or whereness.

   • 1866, T.N. Harper, Peace through Truth, Ser. i., 212:

     The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication.

   • 1892 August 5th, Standard:

     The constant identity of the ubication and direction of the lines [in Mars] proved their connection with the soil.

   • 1952, Applied Mechanics Reviews, ??, page 103/2:

     The ubication of such a joint should be obtained as the point of intersection of the three planes normal to the directions of the lines joining the joint considered with the other three.

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References

• “Ubication” listed on page 2/1–2 of § ii (U; ed. William Alexander Craigie) of part i (Ti–U; 1926) of volume X of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”).Morphologically locate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lo??ke???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

location (plural locations)

1. A particular point or place in physical space.
2. An act of locating.
   • 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:

     The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.

3. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
   • 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)

     It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]

4. (law) A leasing on rent.
5. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

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6. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.

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Synonyms

• (a place): place

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Translations

Further reading

• location in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• location in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• location at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• colation, coontail

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locatio(nem), from locatum, from locare (“to rent, hire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.ka.sj??/

Noun

location f (plural locations)

1. renting, rental
2. rent
3. rented accommodation
   • 2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:

     L'article indique que j'ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j'étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.

     The article suggests that I ‘abused favourable prices in the City of Paris’ with regard to the intermediary housing of which I was a tenant. I wish to clarify that this accommodation had been allocated under normal, regular conditions in 2001, six years before I was elected Deputy.

4. hire (of a car etc.)
5. booking, reservation

Related terms

• loyer
• lieu
• louer

See also

• établissement

Usage notes

• This false friend does not mean location.

Further reading

• “location” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).