locale vs location

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.) 

location

noun
  • A particular point or place in physical space. 

  • An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations. 

  • The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc 

  • A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. 

  • An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township. 

  • An act of locating. 

  • A leasing on rent. 

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