local

comparative more local · superlative most local · alternative abbreviation loc.

1. From or in a nearby location.

   We prefer local produce.

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   Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361

   A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

   2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)

2. computingConnected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.

   local file

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   local disk drive

   The panel shows both local and remote sites.

   Antonyms: remote

3. computingHaving limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.

   Antonyms: global

4. Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
   1. not comparablemathematicsSatisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.

      A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!

   2. not comparablemathematicsSatisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
   3. not comparablegroup theorySatisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
5. Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:
   1. not comparablealgebraSuch that the following conditions are equivalent: (1) P holds for R (M); (2) P holds for the localization R_p (M_p) for all prime ideals p of R; (3) P holds for the localization R_m (M_m) for all maximal ideals m of R.

      Flatness is a local property.

   2. not comparablegroup theoryDetectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
6. algebraHaving a unique maximal (left) ideal.
7. medicineOf or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

   local lesion

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   The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.

   Synonyms: topical

8. Descended from an indigenous population.

   Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

9. quantum mechanicsExhibiting or pertaining to locality (adhering to the principle of locality).

plural locals · alternative abbreviation loc.

1. A person who lives in or near a given place.

   It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

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   Taunton station is busy - even more so when the inbound working of my Bristol train arrives, laden with the usual mix of 'staycationers' and locals.

   2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66

2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

   I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

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   Citing the risk involved with being out as a gay person and a union activist while simultaneously dealing with racism, Susan notes that there are no out gays or lesbians of color in her local, though its membership is about 80 percent people of color.

   1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 18

3. abbreviationclippingrail transportClipping of local train.

   The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.

   Synonyms: stopper · Antonyms: fast, express

4. UKOne'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.

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   As they take me to my local down the street.

   2010, “Nothing”, in Science & Faith, performed by The Script

5. computingA 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.

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   Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.

   2012, Cesar Otero, Rob Larsen, Professional jQuery, page 25

6. USslangjournalismAn item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
7. abbreviationclippingcolloquialmedicineClipping of local anesthetic.

   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.

   1989, Road House, page 39

8. businessAn independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.

   On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.

   2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management, page 316

   Synonyms: floor trader

9. derogatoryslanglifestyleA Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.

   Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.

   2019, Avin Abelardo, "Deep Dive Into The World Of Troll Twitter Memes", Echoes (University of the Philippines), February/March 2019, page 60

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   Her camera roll is filled with pictures and videos of her idol, she doesn't let any of her friends see her account because "no locals allowed", […]

   2018, Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend", The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018, page 25

   Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.

   2018 October 16, Fergal Smiddy, “The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter”, in University Express, University College Cork, Ireland, page 11

comparative more local · superlative most local · alternative abbreviation loc.

1. In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

   It's never been more important to buy local.

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   Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

   2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122