locality

plural localities

1. countableuncountableThe fact or quality of having a position in space.

   It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.

   1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC

2. countableuncountableThe features or surroundings of a particular place.

   a rural locality

3. uncountablecomputingThe condition of being local.

   This shows temporal locality of reference in action because the CPU accesses i at three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.

   2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, page 154

4. countableuncountableThe situation or position of an object.
5. countableuncountableAn area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
6. countableuncountableLimitation to a county, district, or place.

   locality of trial

   1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

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   The locality of trial required by the common law seems a consequence of the antient locality of jurisdiction. All over the world, actions transitory follow the person of the defendant, territorial suits must be discussed in the territorial tribunal. I may sue a Frenchman here for a debt contracted abroad; but lands lying in France must be sued for there, and English lands must be sued for in the kingdom of England.

   1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England: 3:349--67, 370--81, 383--85

7. countableuncountablegeographyA built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village.
8. countableuncountablequantum mechanicsThe property or condition of a physical system adhering to the principle of locality.
9. countabledateduncountablehuman sciencesThe perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.