adj
From or in a nearby location.
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.
Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
local disk drive
local file
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!
Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
noun
A person who lives in or near a given place.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
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.
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.
Clipping of local train.
The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
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.
As they take me to my local down the street.
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.
Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.
adv
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.