localization

Etymology
From ; compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

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

Usage notes
The third sense is often used in certain media industries such as software (including video games), marketing, anime, and manga in juxtaposition with to imply a less literal and more culturalized rendering of the source text. However, in traditional literary and academic contexts, the terms and  are preferred, and both fall under the umbrella of translation.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: локализа́ция
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: lokalisasyon
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 地方化
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: lokaĵigado
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ლოკალიზაცია, გაქართულება
 * German: Ermitteln des Ortes, Ortsermittlung,, , Lokalisieren, Lokalisierung, Lokalisation
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: pelokalan,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 局在化, 局所化, 地方化
 * Malay: penyetempatan, lokalisasi
 * Norman: localisâtion
 * Norwegian: lokalisering
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:, yerini saptama, yerini tayin etme
 * Ukrainian: локаліза́ція


 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: lokalisasyon
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: landelijke aanpassing
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ლოკალიზაცია, გაქართულება
 * German: Lokalisierung
 * Greek: τοπικοποίηση
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ローカライゼーション
 * Malay: lokalisasi
 * Norman: localisâtion
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: språkanpassning,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: локаліза́ція


 * Cebuano: lokalisasyon
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ლოკალიზებულობა
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: lokalisering
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: локализо́ванность
 * Spanish:


 * Cebuano: lokalisasyon


 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: