/ˈləʊ.kl̩/, /ˈloʊ.kl̩/
OriginFrom Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).
The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.
- From or in a nearby location.
“We prefer local produce.”
“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; sh”
“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 air”
- Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
“local disk drive”
“local file”
“The panel shows both local and remote sites.”
- Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- not-comparableSatisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
“A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!”
- not-comparableSatisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
- not-comparableSatisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
- not-comparableSuch 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.”
- not-comparableDetectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
- Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
- Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
“local lesion”
“The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.”
- Descended from an indigenous population.
“Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.”
- A person who lives in or near a given place.
“It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.”
“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.”
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
“I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.”
“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 ”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clippingClipping of local train.
“The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.”
- BritishOne'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.”
“As they take me to my local down the street.”
- 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.”
“Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.”
- US, slangAn item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquialClipping 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 loc”
- An 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.”
- In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
“It's never been more important to buy local.”
“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”
Formsmore local(comparative) · most local(superlative) · locals(plural)