element vs locale

element

noun
  • A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to. 

  • A small part of the whole. 

  • A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved. 

  • Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains. 

  • Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons. 

  • An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit. 

  • One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air. 

  • A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material. 

  • The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments. 

  • One of the objects in a set. 

  • One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 

  • A small but present amount of a quality, a hint. 

  • A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic. 

  • One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags. 

  • A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result. 

  • Any of the teeth of a zip fastener. 

  • A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it. 

  • An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential. 

  • The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion. 

  • One of the entries of a matrix. 

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.) 

How often have the words element and locale occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )