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.[1] 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.
local (comparative more local, superlative most local)
- From or in a nearby location.
- Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global
We prefer local produce.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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 had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):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.
- (computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
- Antonym: remote
local disk drive
local file
The panel shows both local and remote sites.
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- Antonym: global
- (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or property) Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
- (topology) Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!
- (topology) Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
- (group theory, of a property of an infinite group) Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
- (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or property) Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:
- (algebra, algebraic geometry, of a property of a ring (or an -module )) Such that the following conditions are equivalent: (1) holds for (); (2) holds for the localization () for all prime ideals of ; (3) holds for the localization () for all maximal ideals of .
- (group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
- (algebra, of a ring) Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- Synonym: topical
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.
of a nearby location
- Albanian: lokal (sq)
- Arabic: مَحَلِّيّ (maḥalliyy)
- Armenian: տեղական (hy) (teġakan)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܘܼܟܬܵܢܵܝܵܐ m (duktānāyā)
- Azerbaijani: yerli (az), məhəlli
- Belarusian: ме́сны (mjésny), мясцо́вы (mjascóvy), тутэ́йшы (tutéjšy), лака́льны (lakálʹny), ляка́льны (ljakálʹny)
- Bengali: আঞ্চলিক (bn) (ancolik)
- Bulgarian: ме́стен (bg) (mésten), лока́лен (bg) (lokálen)
- Catalan: local (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 本地 (bun2 dei6)
- Mandarin: 本地 (zh) (běndì), 當地/当地 (zh) (dāngdì)
- Cornish: leel
- Czech: místní (cs)
- Danish: lokal
- Dutch: lokaal (nl), plaatselijk (nl)
- Esperanto: loka
- Estonian: kohalik, lokaalne (et)
- Fala: local
- Finnish: paikallinen (fi), lähi- (fi)
- French: local (fr)
- Galician: local, do país
- Georgian: ადგილობრივი (adgilobrivi)
- German: lokal (de), örtlich (de)
- Greek: τοπικός (el) (topikós)
- Ancient: τοπικός (topikós), ἔντοπος (éntopos)
- Hebrew: מְקוֹמִי (he) (m'komí)
- Hindi: स्थानीय (hi) (sthānīya)
- Hungarian: helyi (hu)
- Icelandic: staðbundinn (is)
- Ido: lokala (io)
- Irish: logánta, áitiúil
- Italian: locale (it)
- Japanese: 現地 (ja) (げんち, genchi)
- Kazakh: жергілікті (jergılıktı)
- Korean: 지방의 (ko) (jibang'ui)
- Kyrgyz: жергиликтүү (ky) (jergiliktüü)
- Latin: locālis
- Latvian: vietējs, lokāls
- Lithuanian: vietinis (lt), lokalinis
- Luxembourgish: lokal
- Macedonian: ме́стен (mésten), ло́кален (lókalen)
- Malay: setempat, lokal, tempatan (ms)
- Malayalam: തദ്ദേശ (taddēśa)
- Maori: ā-rohe, tata, paetata
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lokal (no)
- Old English: stōwlīċ
- Persian: محلی (fa) (mahalli)
- Polish: lokalny (pl), miejscowy (pl), tutejszy (pl)
- Portuguese: local (pt)
- Romanian: local (ro)
- Russian: ме́стный (ru) (méstnyj), лока́льный (ru) (lokálʹnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: ionadail
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ме̏снӣ, мје̏снӣ, ло̀ка̄лан
- Roman: mȅsnī (sh), mjȅsnī (sh), lòkālan (sh)
- Slovak: miestny
- Slovene: lokalen, krajeven
- Spanish: local (es)
- Swedish: lokal (sv)
- Tagalog: pampook, pandito
- Tajik: маҳаллӣ (tg) (mahalli)
- Thai: ส่วนท้องถิ่น (sùan-tóng-tìn), ท้องถิ่น (th) (tóng-tìn)
- Turkish: yerel (tr), lokal (tr), mahallî (tr), yöresel (tr), mevzii (tr)
- Ukrainian: місце́вий (uk) (miscévyj), туте́шній (tutéšnij), лока́льний (lokálʹnyj)
- Uzbek: mahalliy (uz)
- Vietnamese: địa phương (vi) (地方)
- Welsh: lleol (cy)
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computing: connected directly
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 本地 (zh) (běndì)
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computing: having limited scope
math: applying to a limited space
medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism
local (plural locals)
- A person who lives near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66: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.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
- (rail transport) Clipping of local train.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
- Synonym: stopper
- Antonyms: fast, express
- (British) 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.
2010, “Nothing”, in Science & Faith, performed by The Script:As they take me to my local down the street.
- (programming) 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.
2012, Cesar Otero, Rob Larsen, Professional jQuery, page 25:Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.
- (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
1989, Road House, page 39: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.
- (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- Synonym: floor trader
2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management, page 316:On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.
- (fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
- 2018, Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend", The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018, page 25:
- 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 October 16, Fergal Smiddy, “The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter”, in University Express, University College Cork, Ireland, page 11:Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.
- 2019, Avin Abelardo, "Deep Dive Into The World Of Troll Twitter Memes", Echoes (University of the Philippines), February/March 2019, page 60:
- Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:local.
a person who lives near a given place
- Armenian: տեղացի (hy) (teġacʻi)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܘܼܟܬܵܢܵܝܵܐ m (duktānāyā), ܐܲܬܪܵܢܵܝܵܐ m (atrānāyā)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 本地人 (bun2 dei6 jan4)
- Mandarin: 本地人 (zh) (běndìrén)
- Dutch: plaatselijke bewoner
- Esperanto: lokano
- Finnish: paikkakuntalainen (fi)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Ortsmann m
- Greek: ντόπιος (el) m (ntópios)
- Ancient Greek: ἐγχώριος m (enkhṓrios)
- Hungarian: helyi (hu), helybeli (hu)
- Icelandic: heimamaður m
- Italian: locale (it)
- Macedonian: ме́штанин m (méštanin)
- Polish: miejscowy (pl) m, miejscowa (pl) f, tutejszy (pl) m, tutejsza f
- Portuguese: habitante local, morador local
- Russian: ме́стный (ru) m (méstnyj), тузе́мец (ru) m (tuzémec)
- Spanish: vecino (es) m, vecina (es) f, lugareño (es) m
- Swedish: lokalinvånare c, lokalbo c
- Turkish: yerli (tr), mahalleli (tr)
- Urdu: مقامی
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a branch of an organization
local (comparative more local, superlative most local)
- In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
- It's never been more important to buy local.
2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122: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.
Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
- “local”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “local”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “local”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
local (epicene, plural locales)
- Alternative form of llocal
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus. First attested in 1803.[1]
local m or f (masculine and feminine plural locals)
- local
local m (plural locals)
- property, premises; business, storefront
From English local.
local
- (Hong Kong Cantonese or overseas Mandarin) local (people, as opposed to foreigners)
From Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.
- IPA(key): /loˈkal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: lo‧cal
local (plural locais)
- local
local m (plural locais)
- premises; rooms
- Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.
local (feminine locale, masculine plural locaux, feminine plural locales)
- local
- Antonym: global
local m (plural locaux)
- room
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.
local m or f (plural locais)
- local
local m (plural locais)
- premises; rooms
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local m (feminine singular locala, masculine plural locai, feminine plural locales)
- local
- (Milanese) IPA(key): /luˈcaːl/
local (plural locai)
- local
local
- local
local m
- room
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus. Cognate with the inherited lugar.
- Rhymes: -al, -aw
- Hyphenation: lo‧cal
local m or f (plural locais)
- local
local m (plural locais)
- premises, rooms
- site
- place, location
Borrowed from French local, Late Latin localis. By surface analysis, loc + -al.
local m or n (feminine singular locală, masculine plural locali, feminine and neuter plural locale)
- local
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus. Compare the inherited doublet lugar.
- IPA(key): /loˈkal/ [loˈkal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: lo‧cal
local m or f (masculine and feminine plural locales)
- local
local m (plural locales)
- premises, rooms
- (Mexico) store or other retail unit in a shopping center