(law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
(law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
(mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join.
“It's less a dinner spot than a prime locale for a several-hours-long food-and-beer party that culminates with a nearly perfect sunset every night.”
“Many films would never get off the ground if directors were denied those introductory helicopter shots that drop us gently and boringly into the movie's locale.”
“At first, the speaker is out of view, looking on from an unknown, unspecified locale.”
“We lined up on the localizer, intercepted the glideslope, and, with a sigh of relief, broke out around 500 feet.”
“The GPS led me by the spinner toward the intercept, cued the turn onto the approach path and guided me as surely as a localizer toward the airport.”
“I nailed the localizer dead-nuts center, squared the glideslope indicator, slowed my airspeed and rode the needles all the way down at a steady ninety knots.”
“The tendencies of innovations in the Plantagenet monarchy were towards a centralised bureaucracy and judiciary, with the gradual elimination of localisms.”
“It would have been well if the new life of the Devil's Ford had shown no other irregularity than the harmless eccentricities of its original locaters.”