"locale" meaning in English

See locale in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ləʊˈkɑːl/ [UK], /loʊˈkæl/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-locale.wav [Southern-England] Forms: locales [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑːl, -æl Etymology: From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|local}} French local Head templates: {{en-noun}} locale (plural locales)
  1. The place where something happens. Translations (place where something happens): местопроизшествие (mestoproizšestvie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), oord [neuter] (Dutch), plaats van gebeuren (Dutch), tapahtumapaikka (Finnish), lieu [masculine] (French), endroit [masculine] (French), Ort [masculine] (German), Örtlichkeit [feminine] (German), Platz [masculine] (German), Stelle [feminine] (German), ме́сто де́йствия (mésto déjstvija) (Russian), lugar [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-locale-en-noun-L8DQpegA Disambiguation of 'place where something happens': 90 5 5
  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. Categories (topical): Computing Translations (language-related settings): taalregio (Dutch), locale [feminine] (Dutch), maa-asetus (Finnish), maa-asetusto (Finnish), paramètres régionaux [masculine, plural] (French), localisation [feminine] (French), Gebietsschema [neuter] (German), Gebietsschemaparameter [masculine, plural] (German), Locale [neuter] (German), configuración regional [feminine] (Spanish), språk [neuter] (Swedish) Translations (mathematics): mesta (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-locale-en-noun-G2pLu87q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 49 32 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 17 52 31 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'language-related settings': 12 64 24 Disambiguation of 'mathematics': 0 57 43
  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.) Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-locale-en-noun-lsLKu7-d Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: spatial locale [mathematics, sciences] Derived forms: locale-aware, locale-awareness

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "localisation"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Gebietsschema"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Gebietsschemaparameter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Locale"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "configuración regional"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "språk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mathematics",
      "word": "mesta"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "locale"
  ],
  "word": "locale"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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