Sekirov Dictionary

local

UK /ˈləʊ.kl̩/US /ˈloʊ.kl̩/

adjective 14
noun 9
adverb 1
forms 3

adjective14

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in or from the area close to where someone lives
- We prefer local produce.
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Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
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Descended from an indigenous population.
- Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
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Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
- The panel shows both local and remote sites.
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Exhibiting or pertaining to locality (adhering to the principle of locality).
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
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Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
- A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!
Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:
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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.
- Flatness is a local property.
Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.

noun9

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A person who lives in or near a given place.
- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
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(UK) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
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Clipping of local train.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
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A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
(informal) Clipping of local anesthetic.
(US, slang) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
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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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An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals. — 2009
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(slang, disapproving) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.
- Her camera roll is filled with pictures and videos of her idol, she doesn't let any of her friends see her account because "no locals allowed", […] — 2018

adverb1

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In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
- It's never been more important to buy local.

forms

locals · more local · most local

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