local
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: algebra
algebraic-geometry
computing
engineering
geometry
group-theory
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
topology
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.
Compound parts: Stellen
ring
Inflected forms:
form: more local
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most local
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: loc.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: more local
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most local
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: loc.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: From or in a nearby location.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
pos: adj
examples: local disk drive
local file
The panel shows both local and remote sites.
gloss: Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
pos: adj
gloss: Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!
gloss: Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Applying to or satisfied by substructures understood as "near points;" in particular:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Flatness is a local property.
gloss: Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a unique maximal (left) ideal.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
pos: adj
examples: local lesion
The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
gloss: Descended from an indigenous population.
pos: adj
examples: Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
gloss: In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
pos: adv
examples: 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.
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