locality
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French localité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin localitas
Pronunciation
Noun
locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)
- The fact or quality of having a position in space.
- Glanvill
- It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.
- Glanvill
- The features or surroundings of a particular place.
- (uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.
- The situation or position of an object.
- An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
- Limitation to a county, district, or place.
- locality of trial
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
- (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Translations
fact or quality of having a position in space
surroundings of a particular place
situation or position of an object
neighbourhood
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References
- “locality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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