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localisation

localisation is the alternative spelling of localization.

Meaning of localization

Noun

localization (countable and uncountable, plural localizations)

  1. The act of localizing.
    1. (Hong-Kong, specifically) The switch of positions in power from the colonizing population to the local population.
      • James has been responsible for the government works programme. He is the last expatriate senior official left in the administration, apart from the Attorney General, Jeremy Mathews. It has been a remarkably swift and comprehensive process of localization, and the competence of government in Hong...2022, Chris Patten, The Hong Kong Diaries, Penguin UK, →ISBN
  2. The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.
  3. The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication.
  4. The state of being localized.
  5. A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring.

See all 7 meanings of localization

Forms of localisation

plurallocalisations

Origin of localisation

From localise + -ation; compare French localisation.

Words formed from localisation

Phrases with localisation

Questions about localisation

What is localisation the alternative spelling of?
Localisation is the alternative spelling of localization.

Words near localisation in the dictionary

  1. locales
  2. localhost
  3. localhosts
  4. localic
  5. localisable
  6. localisation
  7. localisations
  8. localise
  9. localised
  10. localiser
  11. localisers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: localisation (page history and authors); localization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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