English noun: locating |
1. | locating (act) the act of putting something in a certain place |
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| Synonyms | emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| Broader (hypernym) | activity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | apposition, collocation, fingering, implantation, interposition, intervention, juxtaposition, orientation, planting, repositioning, set, stratification, superposition, superposition |
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2. | locating (act) a determination of the place where something is |
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| Samples | He got a good fix on the target.
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| Synonyms | fix, localisation, localization, location |
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| Broader (hypernym) | determination, finding |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | echo sounding, echolocation |
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