[f. LOCALIZE v. + -ATION.]
1. The action of making local, fixing in a certain place, or attaching to a certain locality; the fact of being localized. Also, an instance of such action or condition.
1853. Sir E. S. Creasy, Eng. Constit. (1858), 371. The contrast as to the centralization or localization of administrative power, which exists between England and other civilized countries.
1872. Cardwell, in Hansard, Parl. Deb., 3rd Ser. CCIX. 895. With us, therefore, localization means identification with a locality for the purposes of recruiting, of training, of connecting Regulars with auxiliaries [etc.].
1885. Law Times, 14 Feb., 276/1. Nothing tends more strongly than localisation to confirm the despotic instincts in a judge.
b. Phys. The process of fixing, or fact of being fixed, in some particular part or organ of the body.
1855. H. Spencer, Princ. Psychol., V. vi. (1870), I. 573. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever.
1861. T. J. Graham, Pract. Med., 214. The inflammation may be stated to be the effect of the localization in the peritoneum of the influence of a specific morbid poison.
1878. Foster, Physiol., III. vi. § 3. 500. Hence it became very common to deny the existence of any localization of functions in the convolutions of the hemisphere.
2. Assignment (in thought or statement) to a particular place or locality. Also, the ascertaining or determination of the locality of an object.
1816. G. S. Faber, Orig. Pagan Idol., III. 494. This curious though very natural localization of history.
1832. Westm. Rev., XVII. 405. To Bala Lake … there is a legend attached, which might be imagined to be a localization of the Deluge.
1857. Zoologist, XV. 5479. The determination of the seat of these functions, or in other words their localization, has been attempted in every way.
1881. W. H. Preece, in Nature, No. 620. 465. In order to apply this apparatus to the localisation of a bullet in a wound.
1882. Grosart, Spenser’s Wks., III. p. ciii. The … fact … disproves this attempted localisation of her in the ‘Vale of Evesham.’
1884. Bosanquet, trans. Lotze’s Metaph., § 275. 481. The psychological genesis of our ideas of space and the localisation of the impressions of sense.
1886. J. Ward, in Encycl. Brit., XX. 52/1. What has been … called the ‘localization and projection’ of sensations.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 139. The localisation of the physical signs, and the differences in the mechanical effects produced, will probably make this fact clear.
