"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 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 Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 41 46 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 37 39 0 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 17 44 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 20 43 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 16 43 41 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 18 42 40 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 17 43 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 19 45 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 20 43 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 17 43 40 Disambiguation of 'place where something happens': 88 5 7
  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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 45 35 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 19 48 33 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 41 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 20 46 32 0 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 37 39 0 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 17 44 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 20 43 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 16 43 41 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 18 42 40 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 17 43 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 19 45 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 20 43 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 17 43 40 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'language-related settings': 15 57 28 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 Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 41 46 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 37 39 0 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 17 44 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 20 43 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 16 43 41 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 18 42 40 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 17 43 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 19 45 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 20 43 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 17 43 40 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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          "text": "Small houses have sprung up as rapidly as the summer grasses used to spring in the Five Fields, so notorious for robbery and murder, that even Madame de Genlis, not usually very accurate in her English locale, is perfectly right in making them the scene of a robber's attack.",
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          "text": "Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 231:",
          "text": "Small houses have sprung up as rapidly as the summer grasses used to spring in the Five Fields, so notorious for robbery and murder, that even Madame de Genlis, not usually very accurate in her English locale, is perfectly right in making them the scene of a robber's attack.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The place where something happens."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ],
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "setting",
          "setting"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "region",
          "region"
        ],
        [
          "program",
          "program"
        ],
        [
          "character encoding",
          "character encoding"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Mathematics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 June 27, Tom Leinster, “An informal introduction to topos theory”, in arXiv.org, Cornell University Library, retrieved 2018-03-21:",
          "text": "Since every locale is of the form #x5C;mbox#x7B;Sub#x7D;#x5F;#x5C;mathcal#x7B;E#x7D;(1) [subobjects of the terminal object in #x5C;mathcal#x7B;E#x7D;] for some topos #x5C;mathcal#x7B;E#x7D;, locale theory can be regarded as the fragment of topos theory concerning subobjects of 1. A subobject of 1 is a map 1#x5C;rightarrow#x5C;Omega, which can reasonably called a truth value. In that sense, locale theory is the study of truth values.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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.)"
      ],
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        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
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        "(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.)"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ləʊˈkɑːl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑːl"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/loʊˈkæl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æl"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mestoproizšestvie",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "местопроизшествие"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "oord"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "word": "plaats van gebeuren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "word": "tapahtumapaikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lieu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "endroit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ort"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Örtlichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Platz"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Stelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mésto déjstvija",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "word": "ме́сто де́йствия"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "place where something happens",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lugar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "word": "taalregio"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "locale"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "word": "maa-asetus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "word": "maa-asetusto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "language-related settings",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "paramètres régionaux"
    },
    {
      "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"
}

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