locale
noun
Simple meaning
The place where something happens.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
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IPA pronunciation (US)
loʊˈkæl
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
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noun
The place where something happens.
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.)
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The place where something happens.
Used this way, locale is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use locale
- “This quiet cafe is my favorite locale for reading.”
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Synonyms
Sense: place where something happens
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