Position

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  • noun. A place or location.
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  • noun. The right or appropriate place.
  • noun. A strategic area occupied by members of a force.
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  • noun. The way in which something is placed.
  • noun. The arrangement of body parts; posture.
  • noun. In ballet, any of the five arrangements of the arms and feet in which the legs are turned out from the pelvis.
  • noun. An advantageous place or location.
  • noun. A situation as it relates to the surrounding circumstances.
  • noun. A point of view or attitude on a certain question.
  • noun. Social standing or status; rank.
  • noun. A post of employment; a job.
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  • noun. The area for which a particular player is responsible.
  • noun. The arrangement of the pieces or cards at any particular time in a game such as chess, checkers, or bridge.
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  • noun. The act or process of positing.
  • noun. A principle or proposition posited.
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  • noun. A commitment to buy or sell a given amount of securities or commodities.
  • noun. The amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
  • noun. The ownership status of a person's or institution's investments.
  • transitive verb. To put in place or position.
  • transitive verb. To determine the position of; locate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To place with relation to other objects; set in a definite place.
  • noun. Specifically, in archery, the attitude or standing of an archer in the act of shooting.
  • noun. The aggregate of spatial relations of a body or figure, considered as rigid, to other such bodies or figures; the definition of the place of a thing; situation.
  • noun. Hence Status or standing; social rank or condition: as, social position; a man of position.
  • noun. The act of positing or asserting; also, the assertion itself; affirmation; principle laid down.
  • noun. A place occupied or to be occupied.
  • noun. Posture or manner of standing, sitting, or lying; attitude: as, an uneasy position.
  • noun. Place; proper or appropriate place: as, his lance was in position; specifically (military), the proper place to make or receive an attack.
  • noun. In arithmetic, the act of assuming an approximate value for an unknown quantity, and thence determining that quantity by means of the data of a given question.
  • noun. In logic, the laying down of a proposition, generally an arbitrary supposition; also, the proposition itself.
  • noun. In ancient prosody, the situation of a vowel before two or more consonants or a double consonant, tending to retard utterance and consequently to lengthen the syllable; such combination of consonants, or the prosodic effect produced by it.
  • noun. In obstetrics, the relation between the body of the fetus and the pelvis of the mother in any given presentation.
  • noun. Thesis, assertion, doctrine.
  • noun. Attitude, Pose, etc. See posture.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition.
  • noun. The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation
  • noun. Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis
  • noun. Relative place or standing; social or official rank; ; hence, office; post.
  • noun. A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
  • noun. the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination.
  • noun. the method of solving problems by proceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to the conditions of the problem, and by comparing the difference of the results with those of the numbers, deducing the correction to be applied to one of them to obtain the true result.
  • noun. heavy fieldpieces, not designed for quick movements.
  • noun. a range finder. See under Range.
  • noun. a micrometer applied to the tube of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the field of view.
  • noun. the method of solving problems, in which the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is to the true result as the number assumed is to the number required.
  • Word Usage
    "Obviously, the first problem with McCain position is that for years Alaskans have overwhelmingly favored drilling in ANWR."