Local
WordNet
adjective
(1) Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
"Local taxes"
"Local authorities"
(2) Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body
"Local anesthesia"
(3) Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
"Local customs"
"Local schools"
"The local citizens"
"A local point of view"
"Local outbreaks of flu"
"A local bus line"
noun
(4) Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
"The local seemed to take forever to get to New York"
(5) Anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- From or in a nearby location.
- We prefer local produce.
- Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
- Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
Noun
- A person who lives nearby.
- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
- A branch of a an nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
- 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.
- One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- 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.