position

[OED]: 3. a. The place in which a person, thing, etc., is located or has been put; situation, site, station; 4. a. The way in which a thing or its parts are arranged or disposed, placement, configuration; esp. posture, bodily attitude; (also) a particular configuration or posture.

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Piaget and Inhelder (1967)
In fine, it is apparent how simply and rapidly simple projective relations develop from topological relations as soon as they are organized according to coordinate points of view…Once the three topological dimensions arising from the relationships of order ('between') and enclosure are connected with a specific viewpoint they acquire a new significance (p 192).

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Kastens and Ishikawa (2006)
Every navigation technique (dead reckoning, sextant, Loran, transit satellite navigation, seafloor-based acoustic transponders, or GPS) requires thinking about how angles and/or distances change as a function of relative motions between objects. By knowing the positions of several objects (e.g., satellites, stars, seafloor acoustic transponders) in an frame of reference fixed onto the rotating Earth, the navigator can determine the unknown position of the object of interest.
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