Dictionary

locality en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/ (General-American)
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• /ləʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The 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. (countable, uncountable) The features or surroundings of a particular place.
   • a rural locality
3. (uncountable) The 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. (countable, uncountable) The situation or position of an object.
5. (countable, uncountable) An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
6. (countable, uncountable) Limitation 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:
   • 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. (countable, uncountable) A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village
8. (countable, qualifier:quantum mechanics, uncountable) The property or condition of a physical system adhering to the principle of locality.
9. (countable, dated, uncountable) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Forms

Deriveds

illocality · neolocality · ultralocality · type locality · principle of locality · equilocality · pseudolocality · sublocality · virilocality · microlocality · translocality

Translations (58)

fi paikkakunta (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · fr quartier (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · nn lokalitet (situation or position of an object) · es localidad (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · el θέση (situation or position of an object) · fi paikallisuus (maths, computing: condition of being local) · cs lokalita (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · fr région (features or surroundings of a particular place) · mi taiwhanga (fact or quality of having a position in space) · pl lokalność (maths, computing: condition of being local) · de Ortschaft (built-up area (city, town or village)) · fi paikka (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · sv lokalitet (situation or position of an object) · nn lokalitet (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · de nähere Umgebung (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · de Lage (situation or position of an object) · mi tūnga (situation or position of an object) · fi paikka (limitation to a county, district, or place) · pt localidade (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · de örtliche Lage (situation or position of an object) · de Gegend (features or surroundings of a particular place) · fi sijaitseminen (fact or quality of having a position in space) · de Ortsteil (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · de Örtlichkeit (features or surroundings of a particular place) · de Ort (situation or position of an object) · de örtliche Zuständigkeit (limitation to a county, district, or place) · mi taiwhanga (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · hu lokalitás (fact or quality of having a position in space) · ml പ്രദേശം (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · nb lokalitet (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · el τοποθεσία (features or surroundings of a particular place) · fi sijainti (phrenology: perceptive faculty) · es vecindarios (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · es vecindario (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · pdt Jäajent (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · de Räumlichkeit (fact or quality of having a position in space) · fi sijainti (situation or position of an object) · pdt Jäajent (features or surroundings of a particular place) · bg местоположение (fact or quality of having a position in space) · bg околности (features or surroundings of a particular place) · fr voisinage (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · de Lokalität (maths, computing: condition of being local) · mi wāhi (situation or position of an object) · de Gegend (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · pl sąsiedztwo (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · sv tätort (built-up area (city, town or village)) · el γειτονιά (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · fi seutu (features or surroundings of a particular place) · fr localité (built-up area (city, town or village)) · de Viertel (site of certain activity, neighbourhood) · fi ympäristö (features or surroundings of a particular place) · ru населённый пункт (built-up area (city, town or village)) · fi paikka (situation or position of an object) · pl miejscowość (built-up area (city, town or village)) · uk насе́лений пункт (built-up area (city, town or village)) · nb lokalitet (situation or position of an object) · fi paikkakunta (limitation to a county, district, or place) · de Ortsbezogenheit (limitation to a county, district, or place)