Learn English – term to describe the physical location of an object, as well as the time in which it exists

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Where such a term would reference the location/time of an object, almost like it was of a property of the object. That is to say, if a duck is red, blue, yellow etc, we describe it has having a certain colour. If it's a nanometre, or 10km big, then it's property of size.

Now I know that where/when an object exists an object isn't a property of an object, but it is something unique to that object, so I think it would be useful to have a shorthand for 'geographical location', and 'time of existence'.

There are terms describing both time and location, such an event, or rendezvous (which I think is used to describe the when and where of a meeting between two humans) but I wan't a term that just describes one of each.

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The location in space and time of an entity is its spacetime coordinates. (Sorry, I couldn't find a concise reference for this, but if you do a web search, you will get many hits.)

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