ubication

• vbication

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːbɪˈkeɪʃən/

ubication (countable and uncountable, plural ubications)

1. The condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; location; whereness; ubiety.
   • 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, Burnet, 39 Art., 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 5th, Standard:

     The constant identity of the ubication and direction of the lines [in Mars] proved their connection with the soil.

   • 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.

• “Ubication” listed on page 2/1–2 of § ii (U; ed. William Alexander Craigie) of part i (Ti–U; 1926) of volume X of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)