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locator [loh-key-ter, loh-key-ter] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a person who locates something. a person who determines or establishes the boundaries of land or a mining claim. Liberaldictionary.com
Sometimes lo·cat·er. Origin of locator 1600–10; Latin locātor a contractor, lessor, equivalent to locā(re) (see locate) + -tor -tor Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for locator Historical Examples of locator
He sensed Kerim’s eyes on him but kept his gaze fixed on the locator plate.
James H. Schmitz
“Three miles from the buffalo waller,” our locator had said.
Edith Eudora Kohl
But the locator was not disturbed by a little thing like that.
Edith Eudora Kohl
The locator signal is almost exactly north-by-northeast of us.
Henry Beam Piper
It brought the dot up to dead center point in the locator plate and stopped.
James H. Schmitz
Word Origin and History for locator n.
c.1600, of persons, from Latin locator, agent noun from locare (see locate). Of things which locate, from 1902.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper locator in Medicine locator [lō′kā′tər] n. An instrument or apparatus for finding the position of a foreign object in tissue. The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.