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1. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
   • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     ...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.

2. The place in which something is situated; a location.
3. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
4. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
5. A position of employment; a post.

Situation is a concept relating to a position (location) or a set of circumstances.

It also may refer to:

• Situation (song), a 1982 song by British new wave band Yazoo
• Situation (album), a 2007 album by Canadian musician Buck 65
• Situation comedy, a type of television show
• The Situation (TV personality), nickname of American reality TV personality Michael Sorrentino
• Situation (Sartre), a concept by Jean-Paul Sartre

Situated may refer to situated cognition

Situationism may refer to:

• The ideas of Situationist International, an international political and artistic movement of the 1960s
• Situationism (psychology), which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations
• In Situational ethics, the idea in ethics that the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system when it occurs