located

Located is the past participle of locate. It is used as an adjective meaning “situated in a particular place” or “found at a given site.” It often appears in real estate and geography: for example, “The house is located in the hills,” or “The museum is located near the river.”

It can function in a passive construction: “The area is located by satellite imagery,” though more common is the present tense of the verb phrase, as in “The city is located beside the coast.” The term derives from locate, which comes from the Latin locus meaning place.

In other contexts, “located” can describe data with a spatial reference: for instance, “located coordinates” or “a located feature.” In journalism or editing, it can indicate that something has been found or identified, as in “The suspect was located.” It is not to be confused with “location,” the noun for position, or “locate,” the verb itself.

In computing and geographic information systems (GIS), “located” is used to indicate that an item has an associated geographic position, often stored as coordinates or a place name, enabling mapping and spatial queries. The phrase may appear in datasets, metadata, and user interfaces: for example, “Is this device located at…?”

See also: locate, location, locator, locale, localization, geolocation.