ubication

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin ubicātiō (“location”) (whence Portuguese ubicação and Spanish ubicación; compare the inflected forms ubicātiōnis, ubicātiōnī, etc.) + -ion. Ubicātiō is derived from Latin ubicātus (“located”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns); while ubicātus is a past participial form of ubicō (“to situate”) (found in British works from the 14th century), from ubi (“where”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- (primary interrogative root)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). By surface analysis, ubicate +‎ -ion (ubicate is probably a back-formation from ubication).

Later occurrences are influenced by Spanish ubicación, hence their use chiefly in Spanish contexts.

Pronunciation

Noun

ubication (countable and uncountable, plural ubications)

  1. (archaic, chiefly in Spanish contexts) The condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; whereness, ubiety; also, a location.
    • 1644, Digby, Nat. Soule, v., §9., 400:
      We conceiue these modifications if the thing, like substances; and…we call them by substantiue names, Whitenesse, Action, Vbication, Duration, &c.
    • 1661, Glanvill, Van Dogm., 101:
      Relations, Ubications, Duration, the vulgar Philosophy admits into the list of something.
    • 1699, 39 Art., Burnet, xxviii. (1700), 324:
      They are accustomed to think that Ubication, or the being in a Place, is but an Accident to a Substance.
    • 1837, Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sci., II., vi., ii., § 5., 45:
      Arriaga, who wrote in 1639,…suggests that the board affects the upper weight, which it does not touch, by its ubication, or whereness.
    • 1866, T.N. Harper, Peace through Truth, Ser. i., 212:
      The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication.
    • 1892 August 5, Standard:
      The constant identity of the ubication and direction of the lines proved their connection with the soil.
    • 1952, Applied Mechanics Reviews, page 103, column 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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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Compare “ubication, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “ubication, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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