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  • Capable of being localized, located, or fixed in or referred to a place.

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  • adjective That can be localized

Etymologies

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localize +β€Ž -able

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Examples

  • Because apparently pathological phenomena may occur or not depending on the types of measurements one is performing, it does not seem that this pathology reflects anything about the state of spacetime itself, or at least not in any localizable way.

    Singularities and Black Holes Curiel, Erik 2009

  • Candidate examples of systems that might be strongly localizable include color vision (in V4), visual motion detection (in MT), and visual face recognition (in lateral fusiform gyrus).

    Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

  • This resistance to identifying pains with localizable physical conditions comes from the second thread found in the very same common-sense conception of pain.

    Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

  • Though physicists offer as strong motivation the possibility of gaining the ability to analyze singular phenomena locally in a mathematically well-defined manner, they more often speak in terms that strongly suggest they suffer a metaphysical, even an ontological, itch that can be scratched only by the sharp point of a localizable, spatiotemporal entity serving as the locus of their theorizing.

    Singularities and Black Holes Curiel, Erik 2009

  • If neuroscientists are just calling the same thing by a different name then we can make positive empirically testable statements about the "soul": It is material (conforms to prior knowledge of basic physico-chemical principles), localizable (to patterns of interactions of CNS with its environment), analyzable (is composed of identifiable parts, each subserving a particular function), predictable, and, of course, evolved over billions of yrs.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • The principle of space and time, i.e., physical objects (systems) exist separately in space and time in such a way that they are localizable and countable, and physical processes (the evolution of systems) take place in space and time;

    Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Faye, Jan 2008

  • Malament, D. (1996), β€œIn defense of dogma: Why there cannot be a quantum mechanical theory of (localizable) particles?”, in Clifton 1996b, pp. 1-10.

    Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics Berkovitz, Joseph 2007

  • There is still another feature which is commonly taken to be pivotal for the particle concept, namely that particles are localizable in space.

    Quantum Field Theory Kuhlmann, Meinard 2006

  • The information gathered from the detailed testing described above is used to determine if the patient has mild diffuse impairment or some localizable impairment.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • Although the experienced examiner can get an impression of whether this impairment is localizable to a particular brain region (e.g., frontal lobe, parietal lobe), the information gathered from the clinical cognitive examination is most valid when interpretation is limited to decisions of dominant versus nondominant (most likely left versus right) and anterior versus posterior.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

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