Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Restricted to a particular place.
- adj. Medicine Restricted or limited to a specific body part or region: localized pain and numbness.
Wiktionary
- adj. Limited to a particular area, in a local vicinity only.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of localize.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Medicine) confined or restricted to a particular location. Contrasted with
disseminated orsystemic . - adj. made local or oriented locally.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. confined or restricted to a particular location
- adj. made local or oriented locally
Examples
“It is true that when you have an option of fast access to intenet, you will definietly enjoy that much more than faster processing in localized environ.”
“High methane concentrations (reds and yellows) appear during martian summer in localized plumes.”
“In the last 100 years, the world has had a taste of all of these, albeit in localized areas.”
“Patsy missed the part from Global Warming predictions that include “severe winters” in localized areas.”
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“Harvard School of Public Health professor Stefanos Kales, one of the authors of the report, said no national studies on recruits exist, but in localized studies researchers "consistently find that among police and firefighters, generally three-quarters are overweight and that includes one-third that are obese.”
“Such conflicts originate and evolve from the dialectical tensions deriving from power struggles between centralized state political rulers and those they try rule over in localized, rural Indian village communities using a Western model of secular-styled democratic governance.”
“All I'm saying is that DNA works not only in localized segments but different parts of the DNA strand will affect other parts in ways we have yet to find.”
“But they are a written, if imperfect, record of eye witness testimony describing the difference in localized ecosystems from a thousand years ago compared to the present.”
“In actual fluorescence microscopy investigations, spectral profiles and wavelength maxima may vary due to environmental effects, such as pH, ionic concentration, and solvent polarity, as well as fluctuations in localized probe concentration.”
“Engineers have observed bursts of heat and radiation and even flashes of light at the core, which suggests what is known as a "localized criticality," in which the nuclear chain reaction that normally powers the plant proceeds more rapidly.”
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