localization — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The act of localizing.

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2. The act of localizing. The switch of positions in power from the colonizing population to the local population.

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   • Hong-Kong
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   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 comprehensive process of localization, and the competence of government in Hong Kong has not suffered an iota. His departure is a significant day for Hong Kong.

3. The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.

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4. The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication.

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5. The state of being localized.

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6. A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring.

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7. A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.

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   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 #92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;V#93;#61;#92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;X#95;1,...,X#95;n#93;#47;J(V) is an integral domain. The localization #92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;X#95;1,...,X#95;n#93;#95;P is a subring of #92;mathbb#123;C#125;(X#95;1,...,X#95;n) consisting of rational functions #92;#123;f#47;g#58;f,g#92;in#92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;X#95;1,...,X#95;n#93;,g#92;notinP#92;#125; which are defined on a nonempty subset of V. If V = {x} is a point, then P is maximal and #92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;X#95;1,...,X#95;n#93;#95;P#61;#92;#123;f#47;g#58;f,g#92;in#92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;X#95;1,...,X#95;n#93;,g(x)#92;ne 0#92;#125; consists of rational functions which are defined at x.

Noun

1. a determination of the place where something is

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   localisationlocationlocatingfix

   Broader terms

   determinationfinding

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   he got a good fix on the target

2. (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body

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   localization of functionlocalisation of functionlocalization principlelocalisation principlelocalisation

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   principlerule