Meaning

3 senses
  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.

    Ort, Örtlichkeit, Platz

    ме́сто де́йствияmésto déjstvija

  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.

    Gebietsschema, Gebietsschemaparameter, Locale

  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.)

More definitions
  • the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Typically, a space station serviced a locale at least several light-years radially.

    deEine Raumstation war typischerweise für ein Gebiet von mindestens mehreren Lichtjahren rund um sich her zuständig.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · nonong · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
place where something happens:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
place where something happens:
language-related settings:

Origin

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

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

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: locales
Singularlocale
Plurallocales

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting):venuelocus

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
locale — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto