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localization

Pronunciation: /ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/

The English word “localization” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The act of localizing.
  2. The switch of positions in power from the colonizing population to the local population.
  3. The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.
  4. The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication.
  5. The state of being localized.
  6. A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring.
  7. A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.

Etymology

From localize + -ation; compare French localisation.

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