Background for locale

locale

/ləʊˈkɑːl/ /loʊˈkæl/

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noun

The place where something happens.

Examples :

"Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp."

place environment geography area

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noun

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.

Examples :

"The software's locale settings were set to English, and the date was displayed in American format. "

computing technology language system

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noun

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.)

Examples :

"The different learning environments in the school, like the library, the classroom, and the playground, are all part of the locale of learning experiences. "