ubication
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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).[1] By surface analysis, ubicate + -ion (ubicate is probably a back-formation from ubication).
Later occurrences are influenced by Spanish ubicación,[1] hence their use chiefly in Spanish contexts.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /juːbɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /jubəˈkeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: ubi‧cat‧ion
Noun
[edit]ubication (countable and uncountable, plural ubications)
- (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 [in Mars] 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.
- 1644, Digby, Nat. Soule, v., §9., 400:
Alternative forms
[edit]- vbication (obsolete)
Derived terms
[edit]- ubicate (probably)
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References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Compare “ubication, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “ubication, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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