Meaning & use
siting
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Choosing the location for a building, facility, or other structure and placing it there.
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The committee debated where to site the new hospital.
Engineers must carefully site a wind farm to maximize exposure to prevailing winds.
A note on using this word
Easy to confuse with "sighting" (seeing something) or "citing" (quoting a source), despite sounding identical.
Words with a similar meaning
locatingpositioning
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