English Online Dictionary. What means locale? What does locale mean?
English
Etymology
From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ləʊˈkɑːl/
- Rhymes: -ɑːl
- (US) IPA(key): /loʊˈkæl/
- Rhymes: -æl
Noun
locale (plural locales)
- The place where something happens.
- Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
- (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
Derived terms
- locale-aware
- locale-awareness
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɔ.kal/
Adjective
locale
- feminine singular of local
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /loˈka.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: lo‧cà‧le
Adjective
locale (plural locali)
- local
Noun
locale m (plural locali)
- room
Related terms
- località
- localizzare
- localmente
- locare
- locativo
- luogo
Anagrams
- alcole
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /loˈkaː.le/, [ɫ̪ɔˈkäːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /loˈka.le/, [loˈkäːle]
Adjective
locāle
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of locālis
References
- locale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)