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location | rurban |

As a noun location

is a particular point or place in physical space.

As an adjective rurban is

of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.

location

English

(wikipedia location)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A particular point or place in physical space.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
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  • An act of locating.
  • * 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. ''v.'' Snodgrass'', reprinted in, 1887, , volume 12, page 207 [http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location]:
    • 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.
  • (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

    Synonyms

    * (a place) place

    Derived terms

    * geolocation

    Related terms

    * local * localize * locate * locational * locative * locator

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    rurban

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.
  • *1926 , John M. Gillette, "Community Concepts," Social Forces , vol. 4, no. 4, p. 686,
  • *:The rurban community offers greater possibilities of social stratification than does the open country community.
  • *1946', Walter Firey, "Ecological Considerations in Planning for '''Rurban Fringes," ''American Sociological Review , vol. 11, no. 4, p. 413,
  • *:There exists what has come to be called the "rurban fringe," an area occupied by tar paper shacks and stately estates, large commercial farms and one-acre part-time farms, golf courses and cemeteries, airports and obnoxious industries.
  • *2002 , Andre Wink, "From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective," Comparative Studies in Society and History , vol. 44, no. 3, p. 428,
  • *:In the lands of the Indian Ocean ‘agrarian cities’ and ‘rurban ’ settlements of all sizes were the general rule throughout the medieval period.

    • Related terms

    * rurban fringe * rurbanism * rurbanist * rurbanite * rurbanization * rurbanize

    References

    *" rurban" at OneLook® Dictionary Search . *Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.