localization

The act of localizing.

Noun

  1. The act of localizing.
    1. (Hong Kong politics, specifically) The switch of positions in power from the colonizing population to the local population.

      • James has been responsible for the government works programme. He is the last expatriate senior official left in the administration, apart from the Attorney General, Jeremy Mathews. It has been a remarkably swift and...
  2. The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.

    Coordinate Terms: internationalization i18n

  3. The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication.
  4. The state of being localized.
  5. A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring.
  6. A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.
    • 3) Geometric interpretation of the localization. Let V be an irreducible algebraic variety. Then P = J(V) is a prime ideal of #92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;X#95;1,...,X#95;n#93; and so...

Origin

From localize + -ation; compare French localisation.

Forms

localizations localisation

Related

localizor locale localism locality locate

Derived

Anderson localization antilocalization autolocalization cerebral localization chromosomal localization coimmunolocalization colocalization cytolocalization delocalization dislocalization geolocalization glocalization histolocalization hyperlocalization immunocytolocalization immunolocalization L10n l10n localizational localizationism localizationist mislocalization nanolocalization neolocalization