Location vs. Vicinity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Location and Vicinity
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Location
In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth’s surface or elsewhere. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.
Vicinity
The area near or surrounding a particular place
The number of people living in the immediate vicinity was small
Location
A particular place or position
The property is set in a convenient location
Vicinity
The state of being near in space or relationship; proximity
Two restaurants in close vicinity.
Location
An area where black South Africans were obliged by apartheid laws to live, usually on the outskirts of a town or city. The term was later replaced by township.
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Vicinity
A nearby, surrounding, or adjoining region; a neighborhood.
Location
The act or process of locating
Location of the lost hikers took two days.
Vicinity
An approximate degree or amount
Houses priced in the vicinity of $200,000.
Location
A place where something is or could be located; a site.
Vicinity
Proximity; the state of being near.
There was a crackling sound in the vicinity of my right ear.
Location
A site away from a studio at which part or all of a movie is shot
Filming a Western on location in the Mexican desert.
Vicinity
Neighbourhood; nearby region; surrounding area.
There is a hurricane in the vicinity of the Bahamas.
Location
A tract of land that has been surveyed and marked off.
Vicinity
Approximate size or amount.
I weigh in the vicinity of 80kg.
Location
A particular point or place in physical space.
Vicinity
The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.
A vicinity of disposition and relative tempers.
Location
An act of locating.
Vicinity
That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.
Location
(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
Vicinity
A surrounding or nearby region;
The plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
It is a rugged locality
He always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
Location
(legal) A leasing on rent.
Location
A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
Location
The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc
Location
(Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Location
The act or process of locating.
Location
Situation; place; locality.
Location
That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.
Location
A leasing on rent.
Location
A point or extent in space
Location
The act of putting something in a certain place or location
Location
A determination of the location of something;
He got a good fix on the target
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