[
US
/ˈɫoʊkəˌɫaɪz/
]
VERB
- restrict something to a particular area
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locate
The film is set in Africa -
concentrate on a particular place or spot
The infection has localized in the left eye -
identify the location or place of
We localized the source of the infection
How To Use localize In A Sentence
- Examine the painful area carefully in an effort to localize the most tender point.
- Any organ can be involved, but most frequently hemangiomas are localized to the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
- Prior to European settlement (pre-1850), a wide variety of disturbances characterized the region, ranging from frequent small-scale and localized events such as treefall gaps to rare, large-scale events such as stand-replacing fires and epizootic outbreaks. Eastern Cascades forests
- One must choose either the particle mode, with localized positions, trajectories, and energy quanta, or the wave mode, with spreading wave functions, delocalization and interference. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
- This is plausible because the enzyme citrate synthase is localized in the mitochondrial matrix.
- In the case of cerium, however, pressure causes the atoms to shed some of their outermost electrons, making the electrons "delocalized". EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- Is it only a war zone for constitutional suspension clause purposes if the detainee is accused of being involved with the localized conflict (this would follow with Eisentrager too)? The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habeas Jurisdiction Over Bagram Air Force Base
- Reaction product of acid phosphatase is localized primarily in the small vacuoles, and occasionally in the dictyosome cisternae and vesicles of the golgi body.
- There was otherwise only weak evidence that natural selection might be operative at the HLA loci, and this effect (if true) appeared localized.
- Because the release of aerosols is centered over land, its cooling effects tend to be localized over continents.