locale
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locale
- /ləʊˈkɑːl/ UK
- /loʊˈkæl/ US
Rhymes with -ɑːl, -æl
Where it comes from
From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.
noun locales
- The place where something happens. Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
- 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.
- 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.) Since every locale is of the form #92;mbox#123;Sub#125;#95;#92;mathcal#123;E#125;(1) [subobjects of the terminal object in #92;mathcal#123;E#125;] for some topos #92;mathcal#123;E#125;, locale theory can be regarded as the fragment of topos theory concerning subobjects of 1. A subobject of 1 is a ma
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: locus, venue, location, locality, locally, localization, local, community, regional, setting, scenario, scene, region, language, place, tracing
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noun place where something happens
| Español | lugar |
|---|---|
| Français | lieu, endroit |
| Deutsch | Ort, Örtlichkeit, Platz, Stelle |
| Русский | ме́сто де́йствия mésto déjstvija |
noun language-related settings
| Español | configuración regional |
|---|---|
| Français | paramètres régionaux, localisation |
| Deutsch | Gebietsschema, Gebietsschemaparameter, Locale |
Talk about this word "locale." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/locale. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. locale. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/locale "locale." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/locale.Cite this
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title = {locale},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/locale},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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