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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small coil of definite resistance placed at each station of an electric fire-alarm system, which is brought into the circuit when the alarm is given, thus enabling the observer at the receiving-station to know the locality from which the alarm is sent.

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  • noun computing A person who localizes

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Examples

  • Its patented localizer is a pager-sized transceiver that in three years could be as small as a wedding ring and as ubiquitous as a barcode.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » New localizers will track Marines in the field — and soon your kids 2003

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The localizer is the instrument on the runway that sets this instrument here, guides this instrument.

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2009 2009

  • A localizer is a radio navigation system that, when flown properly, will lead an inbound aircraft to fly directly to the runway and in the proper direction to land on it.

    December 15th, 2009 2009

  • RAYMOND DE HAAN, FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR: The localizer is the instrument on the runway that sets this instrument here and guides this instrument.

    CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009 2009

  • To do this, they developed a "localizer" task where subjects read either sentences or sequences of pronounceable nonwords.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • To test this prediction, we first identified the regions that showed greater activity during scenes that were subsequently remembered (R-E+) than scenes subsequently forgotten (R-E -), and that were also associated with perceptual scene processing as indicated by a "localizer" task

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009

  • Preceding the word retrieval / scene encoding phase, participants were presented in the scanner with a "localizer" task involving passive viewing of either 80 spatial scenes, 80 four-letter words, or a fixation cross.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009

  • In step 1, a "localizer" task identified regions related to scene processing.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009

  • In the first step, we used the "localizer" task to identify regions related to visual processing of scenes vs. those involved in the general processing of words

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009

  • The "localizer" task was used to identify brain regions generally involved in scene versuse word processing, and none of the stimuli wase used in any of the other experiments.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009

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