Local may refer to:

Geography and transportation

* Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand *

Local, Missouri Local is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with T ...

, a community in the United States * Local government, 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 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 A localized disease is an infectious or neoplastic process that originates in and is confined to one organ system or general area in the body,Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary,28th edition. W.B.Saunders, Harcourt Brace & Company such as a spr ...

), 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