Localization has two, somewhat opposite, general meanings: to determine the locality (position) of an object or to adapt an object to the locality.
The term has the following specific technical meanings.
- Internationalization and localization are ways to adapt products for non-native environments.
- GSM localization is a technique for determining the ___location of a user of a GSM cell phone.
- In mathematics, localization of a ring is a certain technique in abstract algebra.
- In acoustics the sound localization describes how our ears find the direction of a sound source.