Meaning of ubicate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To find and specify the location of (someone or something); to locate.
   formal, rare, transitive
2. To take up residence in a place; to lodge, to occupy.
   formal, intransitive, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“Wherever God is, he can create⟳ a material point⟳; and wherever a material point⟳ can be placed, there is space; for space is the region where material things can be ubicated. Now, God is everywhere by his immensity; and therefore, everywhere there is the possibility of ubicating a material point⟳—that is, absolute space has the same range as God's immensity.”

“Author applies to space pin-jointed structures the construction of Williot–Mohr displacement diagram. The possibility of ubicating a joint in such a diagram depends upon the knowledge of the variations of the distances between the joint considered and other three, already ubicated. 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.”

“In an attempt⟳ to ubicate the reader, although only approximately and somewhat arbitrarily, I have⟳ divided the typical astronomical scales in interplanetary, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological[…].”

“This grammar is just what one would expect⟳ from an SIL-trained linguist who has specialized in a language for a number⟳ of years: it contains a great deal⟳ of information in relatively few pages. The introduction begins by ubicating the Desano people and providing a very brief set⟳ of ethnographic comments. They live⟳ on the Vaupés River in Colombia, are patrilineal, and have⟳ a sex-gendered language. There is some uxorilocal residence, though its frequency is not estimated.”

“Another point⟳ of view⟳ is to ubicate the digital and sustainable transformation into a higher level of analysis from a macro and systemic perspective.”

“I am much intrigued as to whether that word Serendipity […] was found in some old dictionary or is a reaction to the Anchoret’s ubicating in a hen house at Auriesville.”

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