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  • verb Present participle of localize.

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Examples

  • There are many uses for the MEG, including assisting surgeons in localizing the source of epilepsy, sensory mapping, brain signatures associated with autism, and assisting researchers in determining the function of various parts of the brain.

    Magnetoencephalography (MEG) 2010

  • This is a good case to emphasize that the identification of natural thresholds does not end the political relationships within localizing places.

    hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » The Logic of Sufficiency. Enough really is enough. 2008

  • With the aid of instruments such as EEGs, magnetoencephalographs, PET scanners and functional MRI machines, researchers have succeeded in localizing a vast number of psychological functions to specific centers and systems in the brain.

    Boing Boing: March 21, 2004 - March 27, 2004 Archives 2004

  • Poor sales numbers were cited for the first two games, which, factored in with the fact that they cost an whopping $21 million to make, understandably left Sega of America a bit skeptical about the idea of localizing the third installment.

    GayGamer.net 2009

  • I think Ren and a few others here have posted in the past their disappointment with the current trend towards "localizing" servers to national/regional markets to avoid these linguistic/cultural pitfalls Btw, Jeff Atwood citation below provides a vague analogy of even how hard that is.

    Simlish and the Cyrillic 2007

  • I simply used it as an example of how "localizing" a product to meet one country's standards can potentially bleed over into what sort of product the rest of the world gets.

    Chinese Fatigue Regulations 2005

  • Nixon came up with a plan of "localizing" the Vietnam War, staging a force surge, and then withdrawing the US forces.

    TPMCafe Steve Clemons 2010

  • She is "localizing" her race, showing specific people and projects benefiting from her influence as a senior senator.

    Crosscut 2010

  • Nixon came up with a plan of "localizing" the Vietnam War, staging a force surge, and then withdrawing the US forces.

    The Washington Note 2010

  • Nixon came up with a plan of "localizing" the Vietnam War, staging a force surge, and then withdrawing the US forces.

    TPMCafe Steve Clemons 2010

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