Local
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Local usually refers to something nearby, or in the immediate area.

It may be used in many ways, some of which are related to this general meaning, others which are not:
  • Local, local anesthesia
    Local anesthesia
    Local anesthesia is any technique to induce the absence of sensation in part of the body, generally for the aim of inducing local analgesia, that is, local insensitivity to pain, although other local senses may be affected as well. It allows patients to undergo surgical and dental procedures with...

  • Local, a.k.a. union local or local union
    Local union
    A local union, often shortened to local, in North America, or a union branch in the United Kingdom and other countries is a locally-based trade union organization which forms part of a larger, usually national, union.Local branches are organized to represent the union's members from a particular...


  • Local, a.k.a. public house
    Public house
    A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...

  • Local (comic)


In computing:
  • Local variable
    Local variable
    In computer science, a local variable is a variable that is given local scope. Such a variable is accessible only from the function or block in which it is declared. In programming languages with only two levels of visibility, local variables are contrasted with global variables...

     in programming languages
  • .local
    .local
    local is a pseudo-top-level domain used in multicast domain name service of zero configuration networking discovery protocols.Apple's Bonjour implements mDNS, as does Avahi...

    , network address component


In a community:
  • Local community
    Local community
    A local community is a group of interacting people sharing an environment. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.- Overview...

  • Local government
    Local government
    Local government refers collectively to administrative authorities over areas that are smaller than a state.The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government...

  • Local history
    Local history
    Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context and it often concentrates on the local community. It incorporates cultural and social aspects of history...

  • Local purchasing
    Local purchasing
    Local purchasing is a preference to buy locally produced goods and services over those produced more distantly. It is very often abbreviated as a positive goal 'buy local' to parallel the phrase think globally, act locally common in green politics....


See also

  • Local structures, according to terms of locality in astronomy
    Locality in astronomy
    Locality in astronomy is in theory closeness of the observer relative to the observed astronomical phenomenon under consideration, and thus in practice the relative closeness of the phenomenon to the star system of the Sun....

  • Local food
    Local food
    Local food or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular...

  • Local property
    Local property
    In mathematics, a phenomenon is sometimes said to occur locally if, roughly speaking, it occurs on sufficiently small or arbitrarily small neighborhoods of points.-Properties of a single space:...

    , in mathematics
  • Local ring
    Local ring
    In abstract algebra, more particularly in ring theory, local rings are certain rings that are comparatively simple, and serve to describe what is called "local behaviour", in the sense of functions defined on varieties or manifolds, or of algebraic number fields examined at a particular place, or...

    , in mathematics
  • Local theories, re physics principle of locality
    Principle of locality
    In physics, the principle of locality states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings. Experiments have shown that quantum mechanically entangled particles must violate either the principle of locality or the form of philosophical realism known as counterfactual...

  • Local H
    Local H
    Local H is an American rock duo, formed by Joe Daniels and Scott Lucas in Zion, Illinois in 1987. Local H's 1996 album, As Good as Dead, includes the top 10 hit "Bound for the Floor" Author, rock critic and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Kot and the Chicago Tribune named the band its 2008 Chicago...

    , band
  • Inflections of word "local"
    • Localism (disambiguation)
    • Locality (disambiguation)
    • Localization (disambiguation)
  • Locus (disambiguation)
  • Locale
    Locale
    In computing, locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface...

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