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locality
  1. The fact or quality of having a position in space.
  2. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
  3. (mathematics) The condition of being local.
  4. The situation or position of an object.
  5. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
  6. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
  7. (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “The locality in which the university is situated is considered the safest and best in the city.”
      “He plowed many a field in the locality and was never afraid of a long day's work in the fields.”
      “Walking, whether on hills or on the flat, is a popular past-time in the locality.”
local
  1. A person who lives near a given place.
  2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
  3. (rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
  4. (Britain) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
  5. (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
  6. (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
  7. (medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “He's a local of the neighboring town who drops by regularly to stock up on supplies.”
      “Sometimes you just want to go to the local where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came.”
location
  1. A particular point or place in physical space.
  2. An act of locating.
  3. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
  4. (law) A leasing on rent.
  5. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
  6. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Refer to the map provided to determine the exact location of the city's grand monument.”
      “The location of my missing sock would prove to be a significantly more daunting experience that had been anticipated.”
      “All based upon a thought that the bovicide was committed at that location and the victim was not moved or transported.”
locale
  1. The place where something happens.
  2. (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
  3. (mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “It's less a dinner spot than a prime locale for a several-hours-long food-and-beer party that culminates with a nearly perfect sunset every night.”
      “Many films would never get off the ground if directors were denied those introductory helicopter shots that drop us gently and boringly into the movie's locale.”
      “At first, the speaker is out of view, looking on from an unknown, unspecified locale.”
localization
  1. The act of localizing.
    1. (software engineering) The act or process of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.
  2. The state of being localized.
  3. (algebra) A systematic method of adding multiplicative inverses to a ring.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The localization of the global company's product was a strategic move to cater to the specific needs and preferences of the local customers.”
      “Globalization and localization enhance the prospects for rapid and sustainable growth in developing countries.”
      “The essence of Gall's method of localization lay in correlating variations in character with variations in external craniological signs.”
locator
  1. One who, or that which, locates.
  2. (US) One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
  3. (travel industry) The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Is that because it would have revealed a tap on his phone, a tap on his cell phone and the GPS locator?”
      “If you've been thinking about getting this unit, remember the stores close Friday, so dump your zip into their locator and get to a store quick!”
      “I once again activated the locator and detected the traveling group of comrades.”
localizer
  1. (computing) A person who localizes
  2. (aviation) The component of an instrument landing system that provides runway centerline guidance to aircraft, but not the glideslope information.
  3. Examples:
    1. “We lined up on the localizer, intercepted the glideslope, and, with a sigh of relief, broke out around 500 feet.”
      “The GPS led me by the spinner toward the intercept, cued the turn onto the approach path and guided me as surely as a localizer toward the airport.”
      “I nailed the localizer dead-nuts center, squared the glideslope indicator, slowed my airspeed and rode the needles all the way down at a steady ninety knots.”
localism
  1. (linguistics) a linguistic feature that is unique to a locality
  2. (uncountable) Attachment to a particular local place; feelings or policies which emphasize local phenomena
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  4. Examples:
    1. “What's the point of the Government advocating localism when the district council is run by people who know nothing about Witham?”
      “With the exception of certain, fully-gentrified areas, localism and tribalism reign, provincial and backward attitudes dominate.”
      “This in itself suggests the depth of localism and regionalism and the seriousness of giving them due weight in symbolizing the nation as a whole.”
locationism
localizationism
  1. The theory that different brain functions can be localized to different physical regions of the brain.
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localhost
  1. (computing) The computer being used locally, contrasted with remote computers elsewhere on a network.
locavore
  1. One who tries to eat only locally-grown foods.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The locavore thoroughly researches and carefully selects ingredients to ensure their meals consist solely of locally-sourced foods.”
      “Next time you meet a locavore, accuse them of callously not assisting poorer peoples by refusing to buy their produce for their selfish reasons.”
      “Many Long Islanders have used the locavore philosophy to inspire flexibility and freedom in creating their Thanksgiving menu.”
localvore
  1. A person who eats only locally-grown foods.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I am a dedicated localvore, preferring to support local farmers and consuming only foods grown within my region.”
localizationist
  1. One who subscribes to localizationism.
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locavorism
  1. The practice of eating food that is produced locally.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It was just the right level of egalitarian comfort and locavorism that a post-crash populace needed.”
      “If adopted on a large scale, locavorism can only re-create the misery inherent to subsistence agriculture.”
      “But intentional locavorism as a phenomenon is quite recent, and only exists within and against the context of the globalized corporate food market.”
localisation
  1. Alternative spelling of localization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Although the Irish localisation industry is still strong, the nature of the localisation industry has changed.”
      “This has been partially achieved by the localisation programme constantly being developed.”
      “Companies need to figure out how much market share they stand to gain from localisation, before they invest.”
locationist
  1. One who subscribes to locationism.
  2. Synonyms:
localizability
  1. The condition of being localizable
locationality
localness
  1. The state or condition of being local.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There was Tamil music playing, and of course the sweet localness of the Tamil language that made me feel at home instantly.”
      “The challenge for us is to develop and apply Group-wide standards while respecting the inherent localness of the businesses.”
      “So just how important is local news and the role of the local paper to the concept of localness and community?”
localiser
  1. Alternative form of localizer
  2. Examples:
    1. “An infrared localiser measures the angular deviation between the missile and the line-of-sight.”
      “One was able to reach the periphery, and stride to the localiser wall, just metres away to the airport hangar.”
      “In these tests the air calibration of the components of the automatic landing systems, including the localiser, glide path and marker beacons.”
locater
  1. Something which serves to locate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The GPS device acted as a locater, helping them find the exact coordinates of their destination.”
localizationists
localisations
  1. plural of localisation
localizations
locationists
localhosts
  1. plural of localhost
localizers
  1. plural of localizer
localisers
  1. plural of localiser
localvores
localisms
locations
  1. plural of location
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But officials and Senate aides said the report contains information on several more locations.”
      “Measurements were made at eleven crossectional locations and averaged to determine overall channel dimensions.”
      “The pizza chain was forced to close several locations and cut employees loose.”
locavores
  1. plural of locavore
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Staples like coffee, tea, salt and sugar can be difficult if not impossible to find close to home, and there most locavores make concessions.”
      “Once they start dining on fennel, broccoli and spinach grown a few hundred feet from their kitchen, they will become locavores.”
      “Stylish women who had shopped in Paris were forced to become locavores.”
localities
  1. plural of locality
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A number of relatively minor yet interesting California realgar localities are given by Murdoch and Webb.”
      “Curiously, other Cisuralian ammonoid localities in Nevada have yielded abundant ammonoids but no additional representatives of Uraloceras.”
      “Most localities, from walled cities to tiny hamlets, are still divided into traditional quarters or neighborhoods.”
locaters
  1. plural of locater
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It would have been well if the new life of the Devil's Ford had shown no other irregularity than the harmless eccentricities of its original locaters.”
locators
  1. plural of locator
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A user can type in uniform resource locators and e-mails using large touch-screens and high quality graphics.”
      “Standard business cards would need to list e-mail uniform resource locators instead of e-mail addresses.”
      “Before this, the best systems could only identify static locators that had to be tediously placed in caves.”
locales
  1. plural of locale
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This assertion raises the question of whether institutions in different locales will converge or diverge over time.”
      “Of course, from beneath the seductive exotica, dark underbellies of distant locales show through.”
      “This field trip featured stops at a dozen diverse collecting locales, including the famous Adelaide and Red Lead crocoite mines near Dundas.”
locals
  1. plural of local
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The traditional walkabout saw the Fine Gael leader mix and mingle with the locals with consummate ease.”
      “On the first day we moved around locally, nosing into small bays and coves, or calas as the locals call them.”
      “He adds that locals know how busy the event can get, and the thought of wading through dense crowds can discourage people from attending.”
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