position
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POSITION, GEOGRAPHICAL, of any place on the surface of the earth, is the determination of its latitude and longitude, and its height above the level of the sea.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
POSITION; at the command position the piece is brought to the port and lowered to the front horizontal snappily.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)
The two works are now as well finished as I am in a position to make them, and will, I hope, hold their POSITION.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Bache, Constance
Vocabulary lists containing position
Argumentative Writing
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Argumentative Writing, List 1
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