pozice

Pozice is a Czech feminine noun meaning position or pose. It denotes the place where something or someone is located, a ranking or status within a system, and the way a body is arranged. The term is used across many fields, from geography and navigation to business and sports, and also appears in linguistics and computing.

In spatial terms, pozice refers to location or arrangement in space. For example, the pozice of a city on a map describes where it lies relative to other features. In planning or design, one speaks of the pozice of elements within a layout or assembly.

In ranking or status senses, pozice denotes standing within a hierarchy, such as a company’s pozice in a market or a team’s pozice in a league table. It also appears in phrases describing someone taking or holding a position, such as “holding a position.”

In body and movement contexts, pozice means posture or pose, as used in photography, sports, or dance training.

In chess, the term describes the arrangement of pieces on the board, i.e., the chessová pozice.

In computing, pozice can denote a position or index within a string or data sequence, such as the pozice of a character in text.

Etymology: pozice is borrowed into Czech from Latin positio, via French position and related languages, reflecting the same roots as the English word position.

See also: position (general), market position, chess position, word order position.