In Measurement and Geometry, the relative position of an object is referred to as its location. It can be expressed in terms of a description (such as ‘next to’, ‘behind’, ‘on top of’), a grid reference (such as ‘A5’), or a coordinate (such as ‘(-2,7)’).
In Statistics and Probability, a measure of location is a single number that can be used to indicate a central or ‘typical value’ within a set of data. The most commonly used measures of location are the mean and the median although the mode is also sometimes used for this purpose.