local
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.kl̩/
enpr: lōk′əl
ipa: /ˈloʊ.kl̩/
rhymes: -əʊkəl
Forms: form: more local
form: most local
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.
Senses: examples: text: It's never been more important to buy local.
text: 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.
ref: 2016, Vinod K. Jain, Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy, page 122:
glosses: In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: all politics are local
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: all politics is local
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: ambilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: antilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: bilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: collocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: duolocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: equilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: extralocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: glocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: hyperlocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: interlocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: Kharchia local
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local administrative unit
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local anaesthetic
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local area network
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local attraction
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local authority
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local battery
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local board
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: Local Bubble
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local cell
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local circuit
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local class
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local color
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local colour
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local council
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local derby
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local exchange carrier
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local-first
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: Local Fluff
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local gigantism
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local government
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: Local Group
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local hero
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localhost
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: Local Interstellar Cloud
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localise
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localish
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localism
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localist
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localite
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localitis
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: locality
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localization
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localize
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local lane
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local loop
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: locally
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local maximum
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local mean sidereal time
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local mean time
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local minimum
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localness
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local option
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local preacher
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local radio
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local ring
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local sidereal time
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local solar time
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local taxi
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: local time
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: Local Volume
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: localvore
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: locavore
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: locsiton
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: magnetic local time
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: matrilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: matrilocality
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: microlocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: multilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: neolocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: nonlocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: patrilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: patrilocality
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: plurilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: quasilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: semilocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: supralocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: translocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: ultralocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: unlocal
sense: Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
word: virilocal
Related terms: sense: Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
word: locant
sense: Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
word: locate
sense: Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
word: location
sense: Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
word: locative
sense: Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
word: locator
sense: Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
word: locoregional
sense: Terms etymologically related to local (all parts of speech)
word: locus