LOCALE

venue, locale, locus

(noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

locale (plural locales)

The place where something happens.

(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.

(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.)

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): spatial locale

Source: Wiktionary


Lo`cale", n. Etym: [F. local.]

1. A place, spot, or location.

2. A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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