• Swedish: position

• ttbc Ido: poziciono
• ttbc Interlingua: position
• ttbc Italian: posizione
• ttbc Romanian: poziţie
• ttbc Serbian: pozicija, lokacija, mesto
• ttbc Spanish: posición

Verb

1. To put into place.

Translations

Finnish

Noun

position

French

Pronunciation

• lang=fr|/pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃/
• lang=fr|/pO.zi.sjO~/

Noun

1. position

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

c (pl positioner, def sing positionen, def pl positionerna)

1. place, location, position. A description of where something is located with respect to the surroundings, e.g. the satellites of the GPS system.
2. (In team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

Position may refer to:

• A location in a coordinate system, usually in two or more dimensions; the science of position and its generalizations is topology
• Body position (proprioception), the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body
  • Human position, arrangement or posture of the human body
  • Ballet position, a set of defined positions for the feet in ballet
  • Sex position, arrangement of bodies during sexual intercourse
  • Yoga position

Organizations and business

• Particular position in an organization, commonly identified by job title
• Positioning (marketing)
• Position (finance), the amount of a security, option or futures contract under control; or the collective arrangement of such positions

Sports and games

• Position (team sports): a team's arrangement on its field of play; a player's standardized location on the field or standardized role in teamwork
• Position (poker), a player's location at the table in relation to the dealer
• In chess, the arrangement of the pieces on the board at any move during the game

Other

• The Position, a 2005 novel by Meg Wolitzer

See also

• Posit

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