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Terrain vs Locale - What's the difference?

terrain | locale |

As nouns the difference between terrain and locale

is that terrain is a single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks while locale is the place where something happens.

terrain

English

(wikipedia terrain)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
  • An area of land or the particular features of it.

    • Synonyms

    * ground

    Related terms

    * terra * terrace * terracotta * terrane * terrene * terrestrial * terrier * territorial * territory

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * * ----

    locale

    English

    (wikipedia locale)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The place where something happens.
    • Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
  • (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, paper format, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.