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DictionaryRoot: -io
Latin

-io

an action, process, or result

Forms

  • -io
  • -ion- — The longer form used before Latin endings.
  • -ion — The form carried into many English nouns.

Origin

An old Latin noun ending, inherited from earlier Indo-European word formation.

Note

The ending can name both an activity and what that activity produces.

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noun / verb

position

puh-ZIH-shuhn/pəˈzɪʃn/

The location or arrangement of someone or something relative to its surroundings.

A finger points to the red pawn's position on the board.

A small red wooden pawn occupies one precise square of a simple unlettered four-by-four gameboard while an adult fingertip points directly to that square.
Etymology
positLatinput, place
+ionLatinan action, process, or result

The act or fact of placing something also describes its resulting situation. This gives position its spatial meaning: the place occupied by a person or thing.

In context

The Organic Chemistry Tutor1:37
the final position is negative two that's where we stop that's the end position
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More examples

  • She sleeps in a curled-up position.
  • We position the lamp beside the couch.
  • The map shows the positions of nearby buses.

Forms

position · positions · positioned · positioning

positional adjective — Relating to the location or arrangement of something.

reposition verb — To move something to a different place.

Similar words

location
Names where something is, rather than how it is arranged.
placement
Emphasizes where something is deliberately put or arranged.
arrange
Emphasizes putting things into a particular order or pattern.