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Adjective
/ˈlōkəl/,
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Belonging or relating to a particular area or neighborhood, typically exclusively so,
  1. Belonging or relating to a particular area or neighborhood, typically exclusively so
    • - researching local history
    • - the local post office
  2. Denoting a telephone call made to a nearby place and charged at a relatively low rate

  3. Denoting a train or bus serving a particular district, with frequent stops
    • - the town has an excellent local bus service
  4. (in technical use) Relating to a particular region or part, or to each of any number of these
    • - a local infection
    • - migration can regulate the local density of animals
  5. Denoting a variable or other entity that is only available for use in one part of a program

  6. Denoting a device that can be accessed without the use of a network

Noun
  1. A local person or thing, in particular

  2. An inhabitant of a particular area or neighborhood
    • - the street was full of locals and tourists
  3. A pub convenient to a person's home
    • - a pint in the local
  4. A local train or bus service
    • - catch the local into New Delhi
  5. A local branch of an organization, esp. a labor union

  6. A floor trader who trades on their own account, rather than on behalf of other investors

  1. 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"
  2. 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"
  3. 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"
  4. local anesthetic: anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
  5. (locally) to a restricted area of the body; "apply this medicine topically"
  6. local is a pseudo-top-level domain used in multicast domain name service (mDNS) of zero configuration networking discovery protocols. Apple's Bonjour implements mDNS, as does Avahi. The . ...
  7. Local is a twelve-part Oni Press comic book limited series written by Brian Wood and illustrated by Ryan Kelly. Each issue is intended to be a stand-alone short story, taking place in a different town across North America. ...
  8. A train is a connected series of vehicles for rail transport that move along a track (permanent way) to transport freight or passengers from one place to another. The track usually consists of two rails, but might also be a monorail or maglev guideway.
  9. The Local is an English-language online news portal localised for Sweden and Germany. The German and Swedish sites, while alike in appearance, have separate editorial teams, each focused on its respective market.
  10. (Locally) In mathematics, a phenomenon is sometimes said to occur locally if, roughly speaking, it occurs on sufficiently small or arbitrarily small neighborhoods of points.
  11. (The Locals) The Locals is a low budget 2003 New Zealand made horror film directed by Greg Page and starring Kate Elliott. The film took in a modest sum at the box-office following negative reviews.
  12. A person who lives nearby; A branch of a an nationwide organization such as a trade union; A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones; One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar; A locally scoped identifier; ...
  13. (Locally) This term refers to information stored and viewed on your machine(local). As opposed to the information stored and viewed on other machines on the internet.
  14. (Locals) Those who regularly surf at a particular break or area. Locals may or may not live at or near the spot, but their regular sessions mean they're accepted by the local surfing community.
  15. (Locals) A local dictionary (object) in the browser that maintains all records (or metadata) loaded from the server. The format is locals[DocType][name]. If an object is loaded in the current session, then it will be present in the locals object (dictionary)
  16. (Locals) Residents who live in the area and you will find they are a close knit clan in which it takes time to be accepted in if you were not born in the area.
  17. (Locals) Stamps not valid for international postage but for regional use only.
  18. (Locals) Stamps valid within a limited area or within a limited postal system. Local post mail requires the addition of nationally or internationally valid stamps for further service. Locals have been produced both privately and officially.
  19. (Locals) noun, pl. The skaters who session a ramp, ditch curb, or any place to skate regularly. These are the guys with the best lines who usually live nearby.
  20. (Locals) people who live at or near a surf spot
  21. (locals) A person who has been living in a place for a long time unlike newly arrived people
  22. (locals) a bit obvious this. People who close by and surf regularly at the same spot
  23. (the locals) mariachily on Flickr
  24. (“Locals.”) These individuals trade in the futures trading pits in open-outcry markets at the exchanges. They trade for their own accounts and are a needed function of pit trading because they provide the important market liquidity for better trade execution (fills).
  25. Not meaning the same thing everywhere. A global variable in Perl can be localized inside a dynamic scope via the local operator.