different between locale vs localization

English

Etymology

From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l???k??l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo??kæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

locale (plural locales)

1. The place where something happens.

   Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.

2. (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
3. (mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): spatial locale

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.kal/

Adjective

locale

1. feminine singular of local

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin loc?lis, loc?lem, from Latin locus.

Adjective

locale (plural locali)

1. local

Noun

locale m (plural locali)

1. room

Related terms

• località
• localizzare
• localmente
• locare
• locativo
• luogo

Anagrams

• alcole

Latin

Adjective

loc?le

1. nominative neuter singular of loc?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of loc?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of loc?lis

References

• locale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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