local
/ˈloʊ.kl̩/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.43 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
adj
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
adj
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
adj
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
adj
Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:
adj
Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:
Example Sentences
- "We prefer local produce."
- "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."
- "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."
- "local disk drive"
- "local file"
- "The panel shows both local and remote sites."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈloʊ.kl̩/
- British English: /ˈləʊ.kl̩/
Usage
- British usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Colloquial
- Derogatory