"The process of making a program suitable for execution within a particular geographic region, typically by translating messages to the local language and handling things such as local time zones, currency symbols, date formats, and so on. Sometimes localization is used just to refer to the language translation and the term internationalization to the rest of the process." (Stephen G Kochan, "Programming in Objective-C", 2003)
"The process of customizing a globalized application for a specific culture." (Rod Stephens, "Stephens' Visual Basic® Programming 24-Hour Trainer", 2011)
"The process of making a program support a specific locale." (Rod Stephens, "Start Here! Fundamentals of Microsoft® .NET Programming", 2011)
"The process of adapting a product and/or content (including text and non-text elements) to meet the language, cultural, and political expectations and/or requirements of a specific local market (locale)." (SQL Server 2012 Glossary, "Microsoft", 2012)
"The process of customizing and adapting a global application for a particular culture and locale." (Joan C Dessinger, "Fundamentals of Performance Improvement" 3rd Ed., 2012)
"The process of setting up an application to run in a particular national language environment. An application that is localized typically generates messages in a local language and character set and uses local datetime formats." (Sybase, "Open Server Server-Library/C Reference Manual", 2019)
"A view that joins horizontally partitioned data from a set of member tables across a single server, making the data appear as if from one table." (Microsoft Technet)
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