location

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or process of locating.
• noun A place where something is or could be located; a site.
• noun A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot.
• noun A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An intuitive perception of distance and direction.
• noun The act of placing or settling: as, the location of settlers in a new country.
• noun Situation with respect to place; place.
• noun The act of fixing by survey, or otherwise determining, the site or bounds of a piece or tract of land (as under a claim for a specified quantity of public land), laying out the line of a railroad or canal, or the like.
• noun That which is located; a tract of land with boundaries designated or marked out.
• noun In civil law, a leasing on rent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act or process of locating.
• noun Situation; place; locality.
• noun U.S. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.
• noun (Civil Law) A leasing on rent.
• noun (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
• noun (Amer. Law) 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A particular point or place in physical space.
• noun An act of locating.
• noun South Africa An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a point or extent in space
• noun the act of putting something in a certain place
• noun a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made
• noun a determination of the place where something is