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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



... —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 would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... lay comforting herself, and the morning wore on, she became increasingly conscious of an indefinable uncomfortable sensation. And presently the sensation became more definite; became localized; and she was aware that she was growing hungry. And in the same moment came the dismaying realization that, in their haste of the night before, she had not thought to plan with Matilda for the somewhat ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... nobody much cared who he was,—of any relationship to the individual whose memory Sancho blessed, so great was the churning in the palaces that then floated. But in our present boats this unpalace-like operation has been so localized and mollified as to escape the notice of all but the greenest and most inquisitive passengers. And now that we find the luxury of travelling by water actually superior to that of staying at home on land, we begin to feel a budding veneration for the man who first found out that steam ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various
... receptacle not too strictly to be localized, half a pound of butter, wrapped in a cabbage-leaf, and a quart ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... two and six thousand feet of elevation they felt to be their natural environment. In it they found the proper conditions for their existence. Out of it those conditions lacked. They were as much a localized product as are certain plants which occur only at certain altitudes. Also were they densely ignorant of trails and routes outside of their own ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White


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