Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - location

 noun  Date: 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) Australian farm, station  c. a place outside a motion-picture studio where a picture or part of it is filmed — usually used in the phrase on ~  2. the act or process of locating  3. the placement of baseball pitches in a particular area of the strike zone; also the ability to control the placement of pitches  • ~al adjective  • ~ally adverb