localization UK /ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/US /ˌloʊkəlɪˈzeɪʃən/ noun7 •The act of localizing. •The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region. •The act, process, or result of adapting translated text to fit a local culture; domestication. •The state of being localized. •A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring. •A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal. •(Hong-Kong) The switch of positions in power from the colonizing population to the local population. formslocalizations