Definition of LOCAL

local

Meanings

Plural: locals

Noun

  • public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
    • "the local seemed to take forever to get to New York"
  • anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
  • A person who lives near a given place.
  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
  • Clipping of local train.
  • One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
  • A locally scoped identifier.
  • An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
  • Clipping of local anesthetic.
  • An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
  • A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.

Adjective

  • relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
    • "local taxes"
    • "local authorities"
  • of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
    • "local customs"
    • "local schools"
    • "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
    • "local anesthesia"

Adj

  • From or in a nearby location.
  • Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
  • Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
  • Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
  • Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
  • Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
  • Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
  • Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
  • Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
  • Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
  • Descended from an indigenous population.

Adv

  • In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

Origin / 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

floor trader, local anaesthetic, local anesthetic, stopper, topical, topical anaesthetic, topical anesthetic

Scrabble Score: 7

local is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
local is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
local is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

local is a valid Words With Friends word