Localization or localisation may refer to:

Biology

  • Localization of function, locating psychological functions in the brain or nervous system; see Linguistic intelligence
  • Localization of sensation, ability to tell what part of the body is affected by touch or other sensation; see Allochiria
  • Neurologic localization, in neurology, the process of deducing the location of injury based on symptoms and neurological examination
  • Nuclear localization signal, an amino acid sequence on the surface of a protein which acts like a 'tag' to localize the protein in the cell
  • Sound localization, a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound
  • Subcellular localization, organization of cellular components into different regions of a cell

Engineering and technology

Adaptation to language, etc.

Mathematics

Physics

  • Anderson localization, in condensed matter physics, the absence of diffusion of waves in a disordered medium
  • Weak localization, a physical effect which occurs in disordered electronic systems at very low temperatures
  • Supersymmetric localization, a method to compute exact correlation functions of certain supersymmetric operators in supersymmetric quantum field theories

Other uses

See also

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