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

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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