locale

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Synonyms: local, locate, locule, locals

Antonyms: local, locate, locule, locals

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Noun

1. The [[place]] where something [[happen]]s.
2. {{lb|en|computing}} The set of [[setting]]s related to the [[language]] and [[region]] in which a computer [[program]] executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, [[character encoding]] etc.
3. {{lb|en|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 [[frame]]s except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)

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