Ubication vs Location - What's the difference?
ubication | location |
The condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; location; whereness; ubiety.
* 1644 , Digby, Nat. Soule , v., §9., 400:
* 1661 , Glanvill, Van Dogm. , 101:
* 1699 , Burnet, 39 Art. , xxviii. (1700), 324:
* 1837 , Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sci. , II., vi., ii., § 5., 45:
* 1866 , T.N. Harper, Peace through Truth , Ser. i., 212:
* 1892 August 5th, Standard :
* 1952 , (Applied Mechanics Reviews) , ??,
A particular point or place in physical space.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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]:
(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)
As nouns the difference between ubication and location
is that ubication is the condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; location; whereness; ubiety while location is a particular point or place in physical space.ubication
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Alternative forms
*Noun
- We conceiue these modifications if the thing, like substances; and…we call them by substantiue names, Whitenesse, Action, Vbication , Duration, &c.
- Relations, Ubications , Duration, the vulgar Philosophy admits into the list of something.
- They are accustomed to think that Ubication , or the being in a Place, is but an Accident to a Substance.
- Arriaga, who wrote in 1639,…suggests that the board affects the upper weight, which it does not touch, by its ubication , or whereness.
- The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication .
- The constant identity of the ubication and direction of the lines [in Mars] proved their connection with the soil.
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- 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.
References
* “Ubication” listed onpage 2/1–2] of § ii (U; ed. ) of part i (Ti–U; 1926) of volume X of [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles](1st ed.)
location
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(wikipedia location)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- 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.
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations