The word "localize" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean "to make something localized or specific to a particular place or region". For example, "The company is trying to localize their marketing efforts to appeal to customers in their region."
This is particularly true when the metal contains notches or cracks that locally raise the stress and localize the yielding.
Republicans still are trying to localize their races so that voters see those contests less as a referendum on the president and more as a choice between GOP incumbents and the Democratic challengers.
Some owls can locate and capture prey in total darkness, relying on their ability to localize the rustle of a mouse in leaves and to fly to that spot.
Some sufferers characteristically confabulate; i.e., they remember experiences they never personally had or they falsely localize their memories in time.
Diathermy therapy is also used effectively to treat back pain, to remove warts and moles, and to destroy or localize bacterial infection of tissues.
It gives Latin equivalents of German (Bavarian) words and phrases and provides evidence of lexical and phonetic differentiation within Latin that permits scholars to localize the work as probably French or Rhaetian (e.g., mantun 'chin,' as compared with modern French menton).
Using intracranial electrodes, researchers are able to localize the origin of a seizure and record single-cell activity while patients perform spatial-memory tasks.
The bees can use these odours to localize the food source in the field, after other signals have brought them to the general area.
The tactical competition between the two is all search and screening, deadly hide-and-seek, for when the submarine closes, its target can do naught but try to escape the blow, and when antisubmarine forces localize a submarine, no help will come and it will either have to fight like a cornered beast or go silent and try to slip away.
NCS can localize the site or sites of peripheral nerve disease and may even indicate the nature of the disorder affecting them.
Electroencephalography (EEG) and computed tomography (CT) scan may be performed to localize and determine the source of the infection.
