localization

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of localizing.
2. (Hong-Kong, countable, specifically, uncountable)The act of localizing.

   “James has been responsible for the government works programme. He is the last expatriate senior official left in the administration, apart from the Attorney General, Jeremy Mathews. It has been a remarkably swift and comprehensive process of localization, and the competence of government in Hong Kong has not suffered an iota. His departure is a significant day for Hong Kong.”

3. (countable, uncountable)The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.
4. (countable, uncountable)The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication.
5. (countable, uncountable)The state of being localized.
6. (countable, uncountable)A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring.
7. (countable, uncountable)A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.