Local may refer to:

Geography and transportation

Local (train) In rail transport, a train (from Old French Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French wa ...

, a train serving local traffic demand * Local, Missouri, a community in the United States *

Local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-lo ...

, a form of public administration, usually the lowest tier of administration * Local news, coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities *

Local union A local union (often shortened to local), in North America, or union branch (known as a lodge in some unions), in the United Kingdom and other countries, is a local branch (or chapter) of a usually national trade union. The terms used for sub-bran ...

, a locally based trade union organization which forms part of a larger union

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Local'' (comics), a limited series comic book by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly * ''Local'' (novel), a 2001 novel by Jaideep Varma * Local TV LLC, an American television broadcasting company * Locast, a non-profit streaming service offering local, over-the-air television * ''The Local'' (film), a 2008 action-drama film * '' The Local'', English-language news websites in several European countries

Computing

.local The domain name .local is a special-use domain name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) so that it may not be installed as a top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. As such it is similar to the other ...

, a network address component * Local variable, a variable that is given local scope

Life sciences and health care

* Local anesthesia, any technique to induce the absence of sensation in part of the body * Local disease ( localized disease), disease confined to an area of the body

Mathematics

* Local class field theory, the study of abelian extensions of local fields * Local field, a special type of field that is a locally compact topological field with respect to a non-discrete topology ** ''Local Fields'' (book), an algebraic number theory textbook by Jean-Pierre Serre * Local martingale, a type of stochastic process, satisfying the localized version of the martingale property * Local property, a property which occurs on ''sufficiently small'' or ''arbitrarily small'' neighborhoods of points * Local ring, the branch of commutative algebra that studies local rings and their modules * Local symbol (disambiguation), uses in various subfields of mathematics * Local zeta-function, a function whose logarithmic derivative is a generating function for the number of solutions of a set of equations defined over a finite field * Local-global principle, the idea that one can find an integer solution to an equation using the Chinese remainder theorem

Other uses