[lo.ca.tion] n (1597) 1 a: a position or site occupied or available for occupancy or marked by some distinguishing feature: situation b (1): a tract of land designated for a purpose (2) Austral: farm, station c: a place outside a motion-picture studio where a picture or part of it is filmed--usu. used in the phrase on location
2: the act or process of locating -- lo.ca.tion.al adj -- lo.ca.tion.al.ly adv