locale

noun
/ləʊˈkɑːl/UK/loʊˈkæl/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from local

Definitions

  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. The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program…

    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. A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties

    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.)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for locale. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA