meaning of location

1. The act or process of locating.
2. Situation; place; locality.
3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.
4. A leasing on rent.
5. A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
6. The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
7. location memory location locked and loaded [Military slang for an M-16 rifle with magazine inserted and prepared for firing] Said of a removable disk volume properly prepared for use - that is, locked into the drive and with the heads loaded. Ironically, because their heads are "loaded" whenever the power is up, this description is never used of Winchester drives which are named after a rifle. [Jargon File] locked up Synonym for hung, wedged. lock-in When an existing standard becomes almost impossible to supersede because of the cost or logistical difficulties involved in convincing all its users to switch something different and, typically, incompatible. The common implication is that the existing standard is notably inferior to other comparable standards developed before or since. Things which have been accused of benefiting from lock-in in the absence of being truly worthwhile include: the QWERTY keyboard; any well-known operating system or programming language you dont like e. g. , see "Unix conspiracy"; every product ever made by Microsoft Corporation; and most currently deployed formats for transmitting or storing data of any kind especially the Internet Protocol, 7-bit or even 8-bit character sets, analog video or audio broadcast formats and nearly any file format. Because of network effects outside of just computer networks, Real World examples of lock-in include the current spelling conventions for writing English or French, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. ; the design of American money; the imperial feet, inches, ounces, etc. system of measurement; and the various and anachronistic aspects of the internal organisation of any government e. g. , the American Electoral College.
8. a point or extent in space

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