different between vicinity vs locale

English

Etymology

vicine +? -ity, from Latin v?c?nit?s (“neighborhood”) (compare French vicinité), from v?c?nus (“neighbor”) (compare French voisin), from v?cus (“village”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??s?n?ti/

Noun

vicinity (plural vicinities)

2. proximity; the state of being near.
4. neighbourhood; nearby region; surrounding area.
   • 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera:

     Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler, reporting from Bangkok, said hundreds of Yingluck's supporters gathered outside the Bangkok Supreme Court to await the verdict but were not allowed in the vicinity.

5. approximate size or amount.

Translations

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)