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geolocating

geolocating is the present participle and gerund of geolocate.

Meaning of geolocate

Verb

geolocate (third-person singular simple present geolocates, present participle geolocating, simple past and past participle geolocated)

  1. (transitive) To use GPS or other data to provide map coordinates to a person, an object, or event.
    • We have geolocated the missing ship, so we can now send rescue personnel.

Questions about geolocating

What is geolocating the present participle and gerund of?
Geolocating is the present participle and gerund of geolocate.

Words near geolocating in the dictionary

  1. geolocalizing
  2. geolocatable
  3. geolocate
  4. geolocated
  5. geolocates
  6. geolocating
  7. geolocation
  8. geolocational
  9. geolocations
  10. geolocative
  11. geolocator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geolocating (page history and authors); geolocate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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