Etymology From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”). The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:
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A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, SciencesOf a resource Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
local disk drive
local file
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The panel shows both local and remote sites.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, SciencesOf a variable or identifier Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
› Applying to or satisfied by substructures…
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Mathematics, Sciences, TopologyOf a condition or property Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!
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Mathematics, Sciences, TopologyOf a condition or property Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
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Group theory, Mathematics, SciencesOf a condition or property Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.
Of a property of an infinite group
› Detectable from the behavior of substructures…
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Algebra, Algebraic geometry, Geometry, Mathematics, SciencesOf a condition or property 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.
Of a property P of a ring R (or an R-module M)
Flatness is a local property.
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Group theory, Mathematics, SciencesOf a condition or property Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.
Of a property of a finite group
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Algebra, Mathematics, SciencesOf a ring Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
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Medicine, Sciences Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
local lesion
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.
local
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Etymology From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”). The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.
Taunton station is busy - even more so when the inbound working of my Bristol train arrives, laden with the usual mix of 'staycationers' and locals.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
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A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
Citing the risk involved with being out as a gay person and a union activist while simultaneously dealing with racism, Susan notes that there are no out gays or lesbians of color in her local, though its membership is about 80 percent people of color.1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 18:
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.
Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.2012, Cesar Otero, Rob Larsen, Professional jQuery, page 25:
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Journalism, MediaUS, Slang An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you a local.1989, Road House, page 39:
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Business, Finance 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, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management, page 316:
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LifestyleDerogatory, Slang 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, Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend", The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018, page 25
Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.2018 October 16, Fergal Smiddy, “The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter”, in University Express, University College Cork, Ireland, page 11:
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Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.2019, Avin Abelardo, "Deep Dive Into The World Of Troll Twitter Memes", Echoes (University of the Philippines), February/March 2019, page 60
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Etymology From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”). The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.
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In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
It's never been more important to buy local.
Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, act local” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122: