locale

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈkɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• (US) IPA^(key): /loʊˈkæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

locale (plural locales)

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. (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.
3. (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.)
   • 2011 June 27, Tom Leinster, “An informal introduction to topos theory”, in arXiv.org‎, Cornell University Library, retrieved 2018-3-21:

     Since every locale is of the form ${\displaystyle {\mbox{Sub}}_{\mathcal {E}}(1)}$ [subobjects of the terminal object in ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {E}}}$ ] for some topos ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {E}}}$ , locale theory can be regarded as the fragment of topos theory concerning subobjects of 1. A subobject of 1 is a map ${\displaystyle 1\rightarrow \Omega }$ , which can reasonably called a truth value. In that sense, locale theory is the study of truth values.

• (mathematics): spatial locale

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.kal/

locale

1. feminine singular of local

From Late Latin locālis, locālem, from Latin locus.

locale (masculine and feminine plural locali)

1. local

locale m (plural locali)

1. room

• località
• localizzare
• localmente
• locare
• locativo
• luogo

• alcole

locāle

1. nominative neuter singular of locālis
2. accusative neuter singular of locālis
3. vocative neuter singular of locālis

• locale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)