local
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See also lo-cal
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
(adjective) From Old French local, from Late Latin localis (“belonging to a place”), from Latin locus (“a place”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈləʊkl/, SAMPA: /"l@Ukl/
- (US) IPA: /ˈloʊkl/, SAMPA: /"loUkl/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊkəl
[edit] Adjective
local (comparative more local, superlative most local)
- From or in a nearby location.
- We prefer local produce.
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
- (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.
- Descended from an indigenous population.
- Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
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- (medicine): topical
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of a nearby location
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computing: having limited scope
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math: applying to a limited space
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medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism
[edit] Noun
local (plural locals)
- A person who lives nearby.
- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
- (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.
- (UK) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- (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.
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- (rail transport) stopper
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a person who lives nearby
a branch of an organization
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a train that stops at all stations
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(UK) the nearest bar
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[edit] External links
- local in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- local in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- local at OneLook Dictionary Search
[edit] Catalan
[edit] Adjective
local m. and f. (plural locals)
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Late Latin localis, from Latin locus.
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[edit] Adjective
local m. (f. locale, m. plural locaux, f. plural locales)
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local m. (plural locaux)
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[edit] Portuguese
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- IPA: /lo.ˈkaʊ/
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local m. and f. (plural locais; comparable)
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local m. (plural locais)
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Adjective
local m. and f. (plural locales)
[edit] Noun
local m. (plural locales)
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