Localization (mathematics)
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In mathematics, the term localization may refer to:
- Localization of a category, adding to a category inverse morphisms for some collection of morphisms, constraining them to become isomorphisms
- Localization of a ring, in abstract algebra, a systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring
- Localization of a module, a closely related construction that introduces denominators into a module over a ring
- Localization of a topological space