localizedadj.
/ˈləʊkəlʌɪzd/, /ˈləʊkl̩ʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈloʊkəˌlaɪzd/ 1. Established in or adapted to a particular place or region; restricted or confined to a particular location, area, or part.
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the world > space > place > [adjective] > fixed in particular place or part
located1799
localized1811
the world > space > place > [adjective] > made local
localizeda1849
1811 Morning Post 8 May A localized circulation competent to all the purposes of trade, and enjoying confidence in its national establishment.
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 330 A strongly localised religion.
1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith ii. ii. 117 All matter is only localised and partial force.
1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 2) 66 A very sudden and localised outbreak, of either typhoid fever or cholera.
1920 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 115/2 (advt.) The branch in your own city stands ready to bring you..all the advantages of a localized national service.
1965 G. J. Jones Fund. Workshop Technol. ii. 32 Localized ‘chilling’ is sometimes practised in the foundry in order to produce hard wear-resistant surfaces on iron castings.
1999 J. Lanson & B. C. Fought News in New Cent. 324 If..the federal government sets tougher standards for drinking water, a localized story would measure how the city's water utility and customers might be affected.
2009 G. Petersen Trad. Micronesian Societies iv. 81 Subclans tend to be localized branches of clans.
2. Medicine. Confined to or acting upon a limited area or particular part of the body; = local adj. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > local
local?a1425
localized1838
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > focalized
local?a1425
focalized1838
localized1838
1838 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 29 645 The affection is due to a localized inflammatory action.
1860 A. C. Garratt Electro-physiol. & Electro-therapeutics x. 662 Dr. Paget had recourse to the electro-cautery. The case is one of very great interest, because it shows the adaptation and beautiful application of localized and concentrated electricity in surgery.
1917 Illinois Med. Jrnl. 32 318/1 This is not a death due to the localized peritonitis having become general.
1973 R. Ludlum Matlock Paper xiv. 129 There's a nurse in there with ice packs and stuff if localized pain bothers her.
2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 Aug. d2/5 They didn't cover some of the newer treatments..such as prostate cryoablation, the freezing of the prostate to treat localized cancer.
3. Chemistry. Of a molecular orbital, covalent bond, etc.: involving only two adjacent atoms and their electrons. Contrasted with delocalized.
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1922 M. L. Huggins in Physical Rev. 19 361 Many of the metals possess a somewhat different type of structure, in which the atoms are held together by what may be called ‘distributed bonds’, in which the valence pairs are not on the centerlines between nearest atoms, rather than ‘localized bonds’ of the ordinary single or double bond type.
1965 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. I. iii. 73 Even in polyatomic systems the molecular-orbital description..has much in common with the traditional picture of a chemical bond. This description is called the localized bond.
2006 J. M. Hornback Org. Chem. (Internat. Student ed.) iii. 68 These localized MOs are much easier to visualize and correspond well to the picture of a bond as a shared pair of electrons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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