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Localized   /lˈoʊkəlˌaɪzd/   Listen
verb
Localize  v. t.  (past & past part. localized; pres. part. localizing)  To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.


adjective
localized  adj.  
1.
(Medicine) Confined or restricted to a particular location; as, the localized infection formed a definite abscess. Contrasted with disseminated or systemic.
2.
Made local or oriented locally; as, a decentralized and localized political authority.





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"Localized" Quotes from Famous Books



... next city to adopt the china trade, and afterward Trenton. Most of this output was thick white graniteware, Rockingham, and stoneware; some of it was decorated, but most of it was plain white. It was useful and durable, but very clumsy and heavy. Subsequently the china industry localized itself until now, while there are many factories scattered through the country, New Jersey supplies about twenty-four per cent. of ...
— The Story of Porcelain • Sara Ware Bassett
... a punitive expedition against the Archduke's murderers. I thus felt it my duty to enter an urgent warning against the whole project, which I characterized as venturesome and dangerous, I recommended that counsels of moderation he given Austria, as I did not believe that the conflict could be localized (that is to say, it could not be limited to a war ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
... episodes from the Ramayana or other Hindu mythologies localized, the story being recited in a monotonous, sing-song chant, in the old Kawi or sacred language, by a professional accompanist who sat, cross-legged, in the orchestra. As a result of constant drilling since babyhood, the Balinese dancers attain a perfection of technique unknown on the ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell
... districts, and under the influence of their customs, intermarriages and interracial reaction will increase; in a world which is steadily abolishing locality, the compromise of local concessions, of localized recognition of the "custom of the country," cannot permanently avail. Statesmen will have to face the alternative of either widening the permissible variations of the marriage contract, or of acute ...
— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells
... - Little localized powers, and little narrow streaks of specialized knowledge, are things men are very apt to be conceited about. Nature is very wise; but for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes


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