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locale.

The place where something happens.

6 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ləʊˈkɑːl/UK/loʊˈkæl/US
  1. The place where something happens.

    Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
  2. 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.

  3. 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.)

Where this word comes from

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

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.