apposition vs locating

apposition and locating both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
apposition	Yes	No	No	No
locating	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, locating is a hypernym of apposition; that is, locating is a word with a broader meaning than apposition:

Other hypernyms of apposition include emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning.

apposition (noun)	locating (noun)
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)	the act of putting something in a certain place
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material	a determination of the place where something is
a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows