Pronunciations (4)
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/ˈləʊ.kl̩/
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- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈloʊ.kl̩/
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- General-American
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ˈləʊkl̩
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- GB
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ˈloʊkl̩
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- US
Adjective
From or in a nearby location.
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We prefer local produce.
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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.
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.
Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
Usage- of a resource
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local disk drive
local file
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The panel shows both local and remote sites.
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Usage- of a variable or identifier
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Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a condition or property
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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.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a condition or property
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular: Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a property of an infinite group
- of a condition or property
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.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)
- of a condition or property
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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.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a property of a finite group
- of a condition or property
Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
Usage- of a ring
Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
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local lesion
The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
Descended from an indigenous population.
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Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
Exhibiting or pertaining to locality (adhering to the principle of locality).
Noun
A person who lives in or near a given place.
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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.
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I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
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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.
One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
Usage- UK usage
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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.
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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.
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Usage- US usage
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An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
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On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.
A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
Usage- Derogatory
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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", […]
Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.
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Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.
Adverb
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
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It's never been more important to buy local.
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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.
Adjective
relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
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local taxes
local authorities
of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
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local customs
local schools
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the local citizens
a local point of view
local outbreaks of flu
a local bus line
affecting only a restricted part or area of the body
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local anesthesia
Noun
public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
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the local seemed to take forever to get to New York
anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body