local

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Antonyms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Antonyms 1.4.3 Derived terms 1.4.4 Translations 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Adjective 2.3.1 Antonyms 2.4 Noun 3 Spanish 3.1 Adjective 3.2 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

(adjective) From Old French local.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈləʊkl/, SAMPA: /"l@Ukl/
• (US) IPA: /ˈloʊkl/, SAMPA: /"loUkl/
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  Rhymes: -əʊkəl

[edit] Adjective

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

1. From or in a nearby location.

   We prefer local produce.

2. (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
3. (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
4. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

   The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.

[edit] Antonyms

• global

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[edit] Noun

local (plural locals)

1. A person who lives nearby.

   It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

2. A branch of a an nationwide organization such as a trade union.

   I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

3. (rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

   The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.

4. (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
5. (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.

[edit] Synonyms

• (rail transport) stopper

[edit] Antonyms

• (rail transport) fast, express

[edit] Derived terms

• localism
• locally

[edit] Translations

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Late Latin localis, from Latin locus.

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Adjective

local m. (f. locale, m. plural locaux, f. plural locales)

1. local

[edit] Antonyms

• global

[edit] Noun

local m. (plural locaux)

1. room

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Adjective

local m. and f. (plural locales)

1. local

[edit] Noun

local m. (plural locales)

1. premises, rooms