Locale vs. Local

Difference Between Locale and Local
Localenoun
The place where something happens.
Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.Localadjective
From or in a nearby location.
We prefer local produce.Localenoun
(computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
Localadjective
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Localenoun
(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. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)
Localadjective
Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
Localenoun
the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
Localadjective
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.Localadjective
Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.Localnoun
A person who lives near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.Localnoun
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.Localnoun
(rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.Localnoun
(British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.Localnoun
(programming) A locally scoped identifier.
Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.Localnoun
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Localnoun
clipping of local anesthetic
1989, Road House, 39:59:Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you a local.Localnoun
public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops;
the local seemed to take forever to get to New YorkLocalnoun
anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body
Localadjective
relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area;
local taxeslocal authoritiesLocaladjective
of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood;
local customslocal schoolsthe local citizensa local point of viewlocal outbreaks of flua local bus lineLocaladjective
affecting only a restricted part or area of the body;
local anesthesia