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.
6. A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.
   • 3) Geometric interpretation of the localization.
     Let V be an irreducible algebraic variety. Then P = J(V) is a prime ideal of #92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;X#95;1,...,X#95;n#93; and so #92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;V#93;#61;#92;mathbb#123;C#125;#91;X#95;1,...,X#95;n#93;#47;J(V) is an integral domain.
     The...2007, Ivan Fesenko, “Rings and modules”, in G13ALS Algebra 2, 2007/2008 @ maths.nottingham.ac.uk, page 27