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ubicating

ubicating is the present participle and gerund of ubicate.

Meaning of ubicate

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...
  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....

Questions about ubicating

What is ubicating the present participle and gerund of?
Ubicating is the present participle and gerund of ubicate.

Words near ubicating in the dictionary

  1. ubhayapada
  2. UBI
  3. ubicate
  4. ubicated
  5. ubicates
  6. ubicating
  7. ubication
  8. ubications
  9. ubichromenol
  10. ubicities
  11. ubicity

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