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Siting vs Location - What's the difference?

siting | location |

As nouns the difference between siting and location

is that siting is the act of finding a site for something while location is a particular point or place in physical space.

As a verb siting

is present participle of lang=en.

siting

English

Verb

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  • * 1997, Christine M. Koontz, Library Facility Siting and Location Handbook ,
  • Library and information school curricula must include training and introduction to siting and location issues for a new generation of library and information professionals.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of finding a site for something.
  • * 2010 , Edward J. Walsh, Rex Warland, Don't Burn it Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators
  • Focusing upon three northeastern states — New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania — which were among the nation's leaders in both attempted and successful sitings of such facilities, we considered dozens of relevant controversies

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    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)
  • , title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
  • 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

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