locale

Plural: locales

Noun

• A place or setting, especially for an event or story.
• the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
• 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.)

Examples

• Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
• The central star on the Scrabble board became the locale for many high-scoring words.

Synonyms

locus, venue