ghetto vs locale

ghetto

noun
  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 

  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

adj
  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

locale

noun
  • The place where something happens. 

  • 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. 

  • 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.) 

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