locale vs whereabouts

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.) 

whereabouts

noun
  • Location; where something is situated. 

  • Information about an elite athlete's future whereabouts, supplied to anti-doping authorities to facilitate random out-of-competition testing 

adv
  • In, at or near what location 

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