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- 1 From or in a nearby location.
"We prefer local produce."
- 2 Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
"local disk drive"
- 3 Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- 4 Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:; Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point. not-comparable
"A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!"
- 5 Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:; Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point. not-comparable
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- 6 Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:; Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup. not-comparable
- 7 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. not-comparable
"Flatness is a local property."
- 8 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. not-comparable
- 9 Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
- 10 Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
"local lesion"
- 11 Descended from an indigenous population.
"Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population."
- 1 relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area wordnet
- 2 affecting only a restricted part or area of the body wordnet
- 3 of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood wordnet
- 1 In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
"It's never been more important to buy local."
- 1 A person who lives in or near a given place.
"It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
- 2 public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops wordnet
- 3 A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
"I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
- 4 anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body wordnet
- 5 Clipping of local train. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
"The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."
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- 6 One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. British
"I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."
- 7 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."
- 8 An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. US, slang
- 9 Clipping of local anesthetic. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"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."
- 10 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."
- 11 A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter. derogatory, slang
"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", […]"
Etymology
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.
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.
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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