Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of having place or position; ubication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality or state of having a place; ubiety; situation; position.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Location orposition .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, with Placemaker, we can help developers and publishers make applications and data sets location-aware by determining the whereness of unstructured content.
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Once Internet browsers that could depict Web sites graphically evolved—programs such as Mosaic and Netscape—the computer became a reading library, a research room, a powerful orienting tool for our whereness in the world.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. “… would then comport my further transformation into one of those beasts I define as awake by virtue of their ubication in sleep’s interior.” senescence.
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