different between domestication vs localization

English

Etymology

domesticate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

domestication (countable and uncountable, plural domestications)

1. The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
2. The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
3. (translation studies) The act of domesticating a text.

Translations

Anagrams

• ectinosomatid

French

Pronunciation

Noun

domestication f (plural domestications)

1. domestication

Related terms

• domestique
• domestiquer

Further reading

• “domestication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• localisation (British)

Etymology

From localize +? -ation; compare French localisation.

Noun

localization (countable and uncountable, plural localizations)

1. The act of localizing.
2. (software engineering) The act or process of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.

   Coordinate terms: internationalization, i18n

3. The state of being localized.
4. (algebra) A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring.
5. (algebra) A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.

Derived terms

Related terms

• localizor
• locale
• localism
• locality
• locate

Translations

Further reading

• localization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• language localisation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia