How is the word "ubication" used?

Solution 1:

It is a dated term of Latin origin. Location is the more common expression:

Etymology:

• An adaptation of the New Latin ubicātiō (whence the Spanish ubicación and the Portuguese ubicação), from the assumed *ubicō (whence the Spanish ubicar), from the Classical Latin ubi ‎(“where”).

The following examples show the term usage:

• 1866, T.N. Harper, Peace through Truth, Ser. i., 212:

  • The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication.

• 1952, Applied Mechanics Reviews, page 103/2:

  • 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.

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