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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
localized
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ localized cancer
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A number of short and localized warning strikes by bank employees occurred during February.
▪ The localized regions of turbulence are known as turbulent spots.
▪ The assumption, rather, was one of special, even isolated, blackspots that can be dealt with by localized attention.
▪ The cuticle also exhibits localized areas of hardening which are sometimes delimited by sutures.
▪ There were also reports of clashes between troops and localized vigilante groups established to provide protection against the activities of Duvalierist supporters.
▪ What had started out as a localized punch-up, had now developed into wholesale slaughter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
localized

localized \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.

Wiktionary
localized

  1. Limited to a particular area, in a local vicinity only. v

  2. (en-past of: localize)

WordNet
localized

  1. adj. confined or restricted to a particular location; "the localized infection formed a definite abscess" [syn: localised]

  2. made local or oriented locally; "a decentralized and localized political authority" [syn: localised]

Usage examples of "localized".

Where a corporation has become localized in a State and has accepted the laws of the State as a condition of doing business there, it cannot abrogate those laws by attempting to make contract stipulations, and there is no violation of the full faith and credit clause in instructing a jury to find according to local law notwithstanding a clause in a contract that it should be construed according to the laws of another State.

The discovery of the fact that such results of injury will produce localized spasm has naturally lead to the conclusion that similar products anywhere in the brain may give rise to epilepsy.

The majority of these forms of disease can be exactly localized in a small area of the brain, and may usually be traced to a blow or fall on the head, or to fracture of the skull without depression.

At present, the first sergeant believed the vanishings to be localized, either the effect of some weapon of mass destruction that the U.

These deaths were not localized, but came in nationwide waves simultaneously with UFO waves.

They were not from a localized source, but seemed, rather, to come from several points on the surface.