microlocation

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A form of micro-location — A location of something within a larger area or region, such as a part of a city or a section of a river.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounmicrolocation (countable and uncountable, plural microlocations)

plural microlocations

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of micro-location.

    Sanders et al. (1983) claim that, in practice, microlocation a representative sampling with respect to station location are not sufficiently evaluated by monitoring agencies.

    2013, Nilgun B. Harmancioglu, Vijay Singh, M.N. Alpaslan, Environmental Data Management, →ISBN
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    A method for electronically transporting a charged entity in a solution from a first microlocation to a second microlocation, each individual microlocation serving to electronically control transport of said charged entity to a microlocation, ...

    2001, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

    And it is not possible to use the same data as in the mobile network if the network operator is not providing the system (because you cannot connect to the databases otherwise), and so you cannot do seamless handover from an outdoor position based on the mobile telephone network to an indoor network based on microlocation beacons.

    2003, Johan Hjelm, Creating Location Services for the Wireless Web, →ISBN, page 40
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APA

microlocation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microlocation

MLA

“microlocation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microlocation. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “microlocation,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microlocation.

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