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Ubiquitous vs Localised - What's the difference?

ubiquitous | localised |

As an adjective ubiquitous

is being everywhere at once: omnipresent.

As a verb localised is

past tense of localise.

ubiquitous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
    • To Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
  • Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
  • Widespread; very prevalent.

    • Quotations

    * 1851 — *: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. * 1927-1929' — *: I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

    Synonyms

    * (being everywhere ): omnipresent * (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

    Derived terms

    * ubiquitously

    Related terms

    * ubiquarian * ubiquitin * ubiquity

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    localised

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (localise)

    • localise

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)

    • Derived terms

    * localisable ----