local.
From or in a nearby location.
Meaning & usage
From or in a nearby location.
We prefer local produce.
Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
local disk drive
local file
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
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!
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
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.
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.
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.
Exhibiting or pertaining to locality (adhering to the principle of locality).
Where this word comes from
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.
A person who lives in or near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
Clipping of local train.
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
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.
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.
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Clipping of local anesthetic.
An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
Where this word comes from
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.
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
It's never been more important to buy local.
Where this word comes from
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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