different between locality vs localization

English

Etymology

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lo??kæl?ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???kæl?ti/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti
• Hyphenation: lo?cal?i?ty

Noun

locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)

1. The fact or quality of having a position in space.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.

2. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
3. (uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.
4. The situation or position of an object.
5. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
6. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
7. (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Translations

References

• locality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• coitally

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