From 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.
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From or in a nearby location.
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):
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:
We prefer local produce.
(of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
local file
local disk drive
The panel shows both local and remote sites.
(of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
(not-comparable, of a condition or property) Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: ▸ Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!
(not-comparable, of a condition or property) Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: ▸ Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
(not-comparable, of a condition or property, of a property of an infinite group) Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: ▸ Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
(not-comparable, of a condition or property, of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)) Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular: ▸ Such 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-comparable, of a condition or property, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular: ▸ Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
(of a ring) Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
local lesion
Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
(qualifier:quantum mechanics) Exhibiting or pertaining to locality (adhering to the principle of locality).
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location) · yi אָרטיק (of a nearby location) · is staðbundinn (of a nearby location) · et lokaalne (of a nearby location) · ga áitiúil (of a nearby location) · mi paetata (computing: having limited scope) · ru ме́стный (of a nearby location) · cmn 本地 (computing: connected directly) · el τοπικός (of a nearby location) · th ส่วนท้องถิ่น (of a nearby location) · sv lokal (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · mnc ᡨᡝᠰᡠ ᠪᠠ ᡳ (of a nearby location) · mn нутгийн (of a nearby location) · grc τοπικός (of a nearby location) · la localis (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · ms setempat (computing: having limited scope) · mk ме́стен (of a nearby location) · ca local (of a nearby location) · ca local (computing: having limited scope) · cmn 局部 (computing: having limited scope) · uk туте́шній (of a nearby location) · ru лока́льный (computing: having limited scope) · sk miestny (of a nearby location) · el τοπικός (computing: having limited scope) · ms setempat (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · ru лока́льный (math: applying to a limited space) · az məhəlli (of a nearby location) · pt local (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · fr local (computing: having limited scope) · it locale (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · tr mahallî (of a nearby location) · ga logánta (computing: having limited scope) · fr local (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · ang stōwlīċ (of a nearby location) · yue 本地 (of a nearby location) · sv lokal (of a nearby location) · fi likimääräinen (math: applying to a limited space) · pl lokalny (math: applying to a limited space) · lt vietinis (of a nearby location) · ru лока́льный (of a nearby location) · bg лока́лен (of a nearby location) · be лака́льны (of a nearby location) · sq lokal (of a nearby location) · he מְקוֹמִי (of a nearby location) · io lokala (of a nearby location) · pl miejscowy (of a nearby location) · ja 局所 (math: applying to a limited space) · fi paikallinen (computing: having limited scope) · lt lokalinis (of a nearby location) · ms setempat (of a nearby location) · ja 現地 (of a nearby location) · sh lòkālan (of a nearby location) · uk лока́льний (of a nearby location) · sv lokal (computing: having limited scope) · hi स्थानीय (of a nearby location) · hu helyi (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · yi היגע (of a nearby location) · eo loka (of a nearby location) · tr yöresel (of a nearby location) · th ท้องถิ่น (of a nearby location) · ga logánta (of a nearby location) · kw leel (of a nearby location) · pl tutejszy (of a nearby location) · gl local (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · pl lokalny (computing: having limited scope) · nl plaatselijk (of a nearby location) · ms lokal (math: applying to a limited space) · ml തദ്ദേശ (of a nearby location) · tg маҳаллӣ (of a nearby location) · hy տեղական (of a nearby location) · yi לאָקאַל (of a nearby location) · ko 지방의 (of a nearby location) · mn ᠨᠤᠲᠤᠭ ᠤᠨ (of a nearby location) · mk ло́кален (of a nearby location) · be ляка́льны (of a nearby location) · ca local (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · ka ადგილობრივი (of a nearby location) · pt local (of a nearby location) · tr lokal (of a nearby location) · mn ᠲᠤᠰ ᠨᠤᠲᠤᠭ ᠤᠨ (of a nearby location) · ms lokal (computing: having limited scope) · ro local (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · sh ме̏снӣ (of a nearby location) · fa محلی (of a nearby location) · mi ā-rohe (of a nearby location) · sh мје̏снӣ (of a nearby location) · hi क्षेत्रीय (of a nearby location) · is staðbundinn (math: applying to a limited space) · pl lokalny (of a nearby location) · cy lleol (of a nearby location) · uk місце́вий (of a nearby location) · az yerli (of a nearby location) · ms setempat (math: applying to a limited space) · it locale (of a nearby location) · mi paetata (of a nearby location) · be тутэ́йшы (of a nearby location) · grc ἔντοπος (of a nearby location) · lv lokāls (of a nearby location) · sl krajeven (of a nearby location) · fi paikallinen (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · gl local (of a nearby location) · fi paikallis- (medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism) · pt local (math: applying to a limited space) · mn тус нутгийн (of a nearby location) · tr yerel (of a nearby location)
From 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.
Meanings
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
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:
It's never been more important to buy local.
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From 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.
Meanings
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. 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
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 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:
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of local train.
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
(UK) One'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. 2010, “Nothing”, in Science & Faith, performed by The Script:
A locally scoped identifier.
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:
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.
(US, slang) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial) Clipping 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:
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. 2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management, page 316:
(derogatory, slang) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
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:
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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