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Meaning of local

noun

A person who lives near a given place. Example: It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. Example: 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. Example: The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. Example: I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
A locally scoped identifier. Example: 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.

adjective

From or in a nearby location. Example: We prefer local produce.
(of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
(of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. Example: The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
Descended from an indigenous population. Example: Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

adverb

In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. Example: It's never been more important to buy local.

noun

An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.

Source: Free Dictionary API.

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