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The act or process of locating.

An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

ta from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.

A removal from the usual place of residence. [Obs.]

A placing or coming between; interposition.

Wrong collocation. De Quincey.

A second location.

one place to another; substitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward.

A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

d which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.…

A location or compartment. In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom Shak. Chapter head, or Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title. -- Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. -- The chapter of accidents, chance. Marryat.

nt. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other perculiarities of a curve from its equation. -- Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the other points of the curv…

Dislocation; luxation.

Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.

a cotton factory. Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.

A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

A small dislocation of a bed or vein.