local
UK /ˈləʊ.kl̩/ · US /ˈloʊ.kl̩/ adjective, noun, adverb
Forms locals loc.
- adjective From or in a nearby location. “We prefer local produce.”
- adjective (computing, of a resource) Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. “local disk drive”
- adjective (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- adjective (topology) Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point. “A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!”
- adjective (topology) Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
- adjective (group theory, of a property of an infinite group) Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
- adjective (algebra, algebraic geometry, of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)) 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.”
- adjective (group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
- noun A person who lives in or near a given place. “It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.”
- noun A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. “I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.”
- noun (UK) 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.”
- noun (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.”
- noun (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- noun (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- noun (fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
- adverb In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. “It's never been more important to buy local.”
Synonyms
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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.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
- noun A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]
- noun On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [U.S.]
Etymology [L. localis, fr. locus place: cf. F. local. See Lieu, Locus.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “local”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details