known location

collocation in English

meaningsofknownandlocation

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known
adjective
uk
/nəʊn/us
/noʊn/
used to refer to something or someone that is familiar to or understood ...
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location
noun
uk
/ləʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/loʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a place ...
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(Definition ofknownandlocationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofknown location

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Each of the four quadrants was frozen such that radial sections were examined from aknownlocationin the retina.
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These radiologic findings correlated precisely with theknownlocationof the cancer on the pre-procedure imaging.
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The accident has certain unusual features in that a relief engine was proceeding to aknownlocationwhere another train had broken down.
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While a few cutscenes are triggered upon entering certain locations, in general, the party is free to move to anyknownlocation.
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Such programs are stored in read-only memory or in aknownlocationon disk.
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Wreck sites must have aknownlocationin order to be designated.
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If the unit stops transmitting upon impact, the historical transmissions will give the lastknownlocation of the aircraft, its speed, direction and altitude.
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Orosso is identified as the nearest airfield to the lastknownlocationof the search party, and aircraft begin arriving at the hitherto unknown town.
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This meant there were many equi-signal areas, and no easy way to distinguish them except by comparing them with aknownlocation.
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For instance, printers were represented as a file at aknownlocationwhen data was copied to the file, it printed out.
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Animals use it to estimate their current location based on their movements from their lastknownlocation.
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Rezovo has changed its location slightly several times: its oldestknownlocationis the same as today's, at the coast.
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Secondly, they provide aknownlocationfor the information source to be located (e.g. where it is shelved).
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The lastknownlocationof a player's quarry is always revealed to the player.
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It has been shown in some cases that color can be an efficient method for identifying objects ofknownlocationand appearance.
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It is proposed to use three such containers at right angles to each other to measure change in position from aknownlocation(dead reckoning).
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The usual purpose is to change display-related values at aknownlocationso transitions are visually precise or occur where they will not conflict with display activity.
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For the data collection exercise, three strong reflecting targets (steel spheres) were placed at known locations.
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The calibration parameters were determined by optimally fitting the mean eye-tracker outputs to the known locations of the fixation points.
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