Emplacement vs. Location — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Emplacement and Location
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Definitions
Emplacement
A prepared position, such as a mounting or silo, for a military weapon.
Location
In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth’s surface or elsewhere. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.
Emplacement
The act of putting into a certain position; placement.
Location
A particular place or position
The property is set in a convenient location
Emplacement
Position; location.
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Location
An area where black South Africans were obliged by apartheid laws to live, usually on the outskirts of a town or city. The term was later replaced by township.
Emplacement
An installation that houses a military weapon.
Location
The act or process of locating
Location of the lost hikers took two days.
Emplacement
A place where a thing is located; the act of placing something somewhere.
Location
A place where something is or could be located; a site.
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Emplacement
(geology) The inclusion of igneous rock in older rocks, or the development or localization of an ore body in older rocks. The latter is referred to as ore deposition.
Location
A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot
Filming a Western on location in the Mexican desert.
Emplacement
A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
Location
A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.
Emplacement
Military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon
Location
A particular point or place in physical space.
Emplacement
The act of putting something in a certain place or location
Location
An act of locating.
Location
(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
Location
(legal) A leasing on rent.
Location
A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
Location
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
Location
(Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Location
The act or process of locating.
Location
Situation; place; locality.
Location
That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.
Location
A leasing on rent.
Location
A point or extent in space
Location
The act of putting something in a certain place or location
Location
A determination of the location of something;
He got a good fix on the target