locale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The place where something happens.
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.
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.)

/ləʊˈkɑːl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-locale.wav /loʊˈkæl/

locale locales

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

locale-aware locale-awareness locale theory localic sublocale

Finnish: mesta Polish: lokal

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