ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Micro-location

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Micro-location is a noun meaning (countable) A location of something within a larger area or region, such as a part of a city or a section of a river.

Meaning

(countable) A location of something within a larger area or region, such as a part of a city or a section of a river.

More Meanings

  1. (countable) A location specified on a microscopic scale, such as on a biochip or on a DNA molecule.
  2. (countable) A specific location detected or targeted by micro-location technology.
  3. (uncountable) The process of electronically determining the location of something with a level of precision that locates it within a building or room.

Example Sentences

The quality of the micro-location of a project is considered as a very important factor in the development of a hotel.
The cells introduced onto these microelectrodes are manipulated to different micro-locations by positive and negative DEP forces.
In a third aspect, this inventions features a method for concentrating and reacting analytes or reactants at any specific micro-location on the device.
Analytes or reactants can be transported by free field electrophoresis to any specific micro-location where the analytes or reactants are effectively concentrated and reacted with the specific binding entity at said micro-location.

Word Forms

Antonyms for micro-location

Common opposites include macrolocation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include microlocation, microlocality, microneighborhood, microarea, microsection, microdomain.

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