How to say "locate" in Japanese

• 突き止めるつきとめるCommon
  ichidan verb, transitive verbCovers 'locate' in the sense of tracking down and ascertaining something not immediately known, especially a culprit or underlying cause. It implies investigative effort to pin the answer down.
  ホームページに住所じゅうしょを書かいたら、その気きになれば誰だれでもあなたの居所いどころを突き止つきとめられる。↗

  If you write your address on a web-page, anybody can find out where you live if the whim takes them.
• 位置付けるいちづけるCommon
  ichidan verb, transitive verbCovers 'locate' in the sense of placing or positioning something in relation to the whole, or ranking it. It is about situating an item within a larger framework, not physically finding it.

For 'locate', choose 「突き止める」 when you track down and pin down something hidden such as a culprit or cause; choose 「位置付ける」 when you situate or position something in relation to a whole.

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• 突き止めるつきとめるto determine (esp. a culprit or underlying cause)
• 位置付けるいちづけるto place (in relation to the whole)
• 探し出すさがしだすto track down
• ロケートlocate
• 探し当てるさがしあてるto find (after searching everywhere)
• 調べ出すしらべだすto hunt up
• 見つけ出すみつけだすto find out