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Localization or localisation may refer to:

Biology

  • Localization of function, locating psychological functions in the brain or nervous system; see Linguistic intelligence
  • Localization of sensation, ability to tell what part of the body is affected by touch or other sensation; see Allochiria
  • Neurologic localization, in neurology, the process of deducing the location of injury based on symptoms and neurological examination
  • Nuclear localization signal, an amino acid sequence on the surface of a protein which acts like a 'tag' to localize the protein in the cell
  • Sound localization, a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound
  • Subcellular localization, organization of cellular components into different regions of a cell

Engineering and technology

  • GSM localization, determining the location of an active cell phone or wireless transceiver
  • Robot localization, figuring out robot's position in an environment
  • Indoor positioning system, a network of devices used to locate objects or people inside a building
  • Navigation, determining one's position accurately on the surface of earth
  • Radiolocation, finding the location of something via radio waves
  • Satellite navigation, a positioning and navigation technique aided by satellites

Adaptation to language, etc.

  • Language localization, translating a product into different languages or adapting a product to a country or region
  • Internationalization and localization, the adaptation of computer software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures
  • Video game localization, preparation of video games for other locales
  • Dub localization, the adaptation of a movie or television series for another audience

Mathematics

  • Localization of a category, adding to a category inverse morphisms for some collection of morphisms, constraining them to become isomorphisms
  • Localization of a ring and a module, in abstract algebra, a formal way to introduce the "denominators" to a given ring or a module
  • Localization of a topological space, the localization of topological spaces at primes
  • Localization theorem, theorem to infer the nullity of a function given only information about its continuity and the value of its integral

Physics

  • Anderson localization, in condensed matter physics, the absence of diffusion of waves in a disordered medium
  • Weak localization, a physical effect which occurs in disordered electronic systems at very low temperatures
  • Supersymmetric localization, a method to compute exact correlation functions of certain supersymmetric operators in supersymmetric quantum field theories

Other uses

  • Localization Era (1900-1300 BCE), the fourth and final period of the Indus Valley Tradition
  • The opposite of economic globalisation
  • Glocalization, the adaptation of international products around the particularities of a local culture

See also

  • Local theory, a physical theory that obeys the principle of locality
  • Local (disambiguation)
  • Local group (disambiguation)
  • Localism (disambiguation)
  • Locality (disambiguation)
  • Locus (disambiguation)
  • Type locality (disambiguation)
  • Locale (computer software)
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