English Explanatory Dictionary

local

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. From or in a nearby location.
  2. Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
  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:
  5. Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
  6. Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
  7. Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
  8. Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:
  9. 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.
  10. Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
  11. Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
  12. Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
noun
  1. A person who lives in or near a given place.
  2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
  3. Clipping of local train.
  4. One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
  5. A locally scoped identifier.
  6. An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
  7. Clipping of local anesthetic.
  8. An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
  9. A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
adv
  1. In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

Pronunciation

/ˈləʊ.kl̩/ lōk′əl /ˈloʊ.kl̩/ En-us-local.ogg

Word forms

local more local most local locals

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.

Synonyms

topical stopper floor trader

Antonyms

remote global fast express

Related words

locant locate location locative locator locoregional locus

Derived words

all politics are local all politics is local ambilocal antilocal bilocal collocal duolocal equilocal extralocal glocal hyperlocal interlocal Kharchia local local administrative unit local anaesthetic local area network local attraction local authority local battery local board Local Bubble local cell local circuit local class local color local colour local council local derby local exchange carrier local-first Local Fluff local gigantism local government Local Group local hero localhost Local Interstellar Cloud localise localish localism localist localite localitis locality localization localize local lane local loop locally local maximum local mean sidereal time local mean time local minimum localness local option local preacher local radio local ring local sidereal time local solar time
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