locale vs province

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.) 

province

noun
  • The parts of a country outside its capital city. 

  • An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor. 

  • An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses. 

  • A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country. 

  • An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept. 

  • An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China. 

  • An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order. 

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