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ubicate

Syllables: ubic·ate/ˈjuːbɪkeɪt/US/ˈjubəkeɪt/

ubicate verb: to find and specify the location of (someone or something); to locate.

Verb

ubicate (third-person singular simple present ubicates, present participle ubicating, simple past and past participle ubicated)

  1. (formal, rare, transitive) To find and specify the location of (someone or something); to locate.
    • Wherever God is, he can create a material point; and wherever a material point can be placed, there is space; for space is the region where material things can be ubicated. Now, God is everywhere by his immensity; and therefore, everywhere there is the possibility of ubicating a material point—that...1875 July, “Space”, in The Catholic World. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science, volume XXI, number 124, New York, N.Y.: The Catholic Publication House, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, part I...
    • Author applies to space pin-jointed structures the construction of Williot–Mohr displacement diagram. The possibility of ubicating a joint in such a diagram depends upon the knowledge of the variations of the distances between the joint considered and other three, already ubicated. The ubication of...1952 March, Arturo J. Bignoli, “[Structures] 667. Ewell, W. W., Three-dimensional Displacement Diagrams for Space Frame Structures, Proc. Amer. Soc. civ. Engrs. Separate no. 20, May 1950 = Trans....
  2. (formal, intransitive, rare) To take up residence in a place; to lodge, to occupy.
    • I am much intrigued as to whether that word Serendipity […] was found in some old dictionary or is a reaction to the Anchoret’s ubicating in a hen house at Auriesville.1933 October 7, John Bull, “Communications: Anchoret in the Belfry [letter to the editor]”, in America: A Catholic Review of the Week, volume L, number 1 (number 1254 overall), New York, N.Y....

ubicate meaning in Tamil

ubicate in Tamil

ஏற்ற இடத்தில் வை

Examples of ubicate in a sentence

  • Wherever God is, he can create a material point; and wherever a material point can be placed, there is space; for space is the region where material things can be ubicated.1875 July, “Space”, in The Catholic World. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science, volume XXI, number 124, New York, N.Y....
  • The possibility of ubicating a joint in such a diagram depends upon the knowledge of the variations of the distances between the joint considered and other three, already ubicated.1952 March, Arturo J. Bignoli, “[Structures] 667. Ewell, W. W., Three-dimensional Displacement Diagrams for Space Frame Structures, Proc....
  • Another point of view is to ubicate the digital and sustainable transformation into a higher level of analysis from a macro and systemic perspective.2023, Salvador Estrada, Juan Reyes Álvarez, “Digital and Sustainable Transformation: An Outcoming Response to the Pandemic”, in Salvador...

Forms of ubicate

third-person singular presentubicates
present participleubicating
past participleubicated
pastubicated

Origin of ubicate

Probably a back-formation from ubication (“condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position”) on the basis of -ate (suffix forming verbs). Ubication is borrowed from New Latin ubicātiō (“location”) (compare the inflected forms ubicātiōnis, ubicātiōnī, etc.), from Latin ubicātus (“located”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns). 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).

Questions about ubicate

What does ubicate mean?
Ubicate means to find and specify the location of (someone or something); to locate.
What is ubicate in Tamil?
Ubicate in Tamil is ஏற்ற இடத்தில் வை. See Ubicate meaning in Tamil.
How do you use ubicate in a sentence?
Wherever God is, he can create a material point; and wherever a material point can be placed, there is space; for space is the region where material things can be ubicated.
What part of speech is ubicate?
Ubicate is a verb.
How do you pronounce ubicate?
Ubicate is pronounced /ˈjuːbɪkeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of ubicate?
The past tense of ubicate is ubicated.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ubicate (page history and authors); ubicate (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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