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Geography and transportation

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Local (train) In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (ofte ...
, 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 U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by ...
, 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-loc ...
, 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

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.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 In computer science, a local variable is a variable that is given ''local scope''. A local variable reference in the function or block in which it is declared overrides the same variable name in the larger scope. In programming languages with o ...
, a variable that is given local scope


Life sciences and health care

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Local anesthesia Local anesthesia is any technique to induce the absence of sensation in a specific part of the body, generally for the aim of inducing local analgesia, that is, local insensitivity to pain, although other local senses may be affected as well. It ...
, 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 In mathematics, a field ''K'' is called a (non-Archimedean) local field if it is complete with respect to a topology induced by a discrete valuation ''v'' and if its residue field ''k'' is finite. Equivalently, a local field is a locally compact ...
, 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 In mathematics, a local martingale is a type of stochastic process, satisfying the localized version of the martingale property. Every martingale is a local martingale; every bounded local martingale is a martingale; in particular, every local m ...
, a type of stochastic process, satisfying the localized version of the martingale property *
Local property In mathematics, a mathematical object is said to satisfy a property locally, if the property is satisfied on some limited, immediate portions of the object (e.g., on some ''sufficiently small'' or ''arbitrarily small'' neighborhoods of points). P ...
, a property which occurs on ''sufficiently small'' or ''arbitrarily small'' neighborhoods of points *
Local ring In abstract algebra, more specifically ring theory, local rings are certain rings that are comparatively simple, and serve to describe what is called "local behaviour", in the sense of functions defined on varieties or manifolds, or of algebrai ...
, the branch of commutative algebra that studies local rings and their modules *
Local symbol (disambiguation) In mathematics, local symbol may refer to: * The local Artin symbol in Artin reciprocity * The local symbol used to formulate Weil reciprocity In mathematics, the Weil reciprocity law is a result of André Weil holding in the function field ''K'' ...
, uses in various subfields of mathematics *
Local zeta-function In number theory, the local zeta function (sometimes called the congruent zeta function or the Hasse–Weil zeta function) is defined as :Z(V, s) = \exp\left(\sum_^\infty \frac (q^)^m\right) where is a non-singular -dimensional projective al ...
, 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 In mathematics, Helmut Hasse's local–global principle, also known as the Hasse principle, is the idea that one can find an integer solution to an equation by using the Chinese remainder theorem to piece together solutions modulo powers of each ...
, the idea that one can find an integer solution to an equation using the Chinese remainder theorem


Other uses

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Local theory In physics, the principle of locality states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings. A theory that includes the principle of locality is said to be a "local theory". This is an alternative to the concept of in ...
, a physical theory that obeys the principle of locality * Pub, a drinking establishment, known as a "local" to its regulars *
Local language * A regional language is a language spoken in a region of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federated state or province or some wider area. Internationally, for the purposes of the European Charter for Regional or Minority ...


See also

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Locale (disambiguation) Locale may refer to: * Locale (computer software) In computing, a locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, region and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface. Usually a locale ...
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Localism (disambiguation) Localism may refer to: * Fiscal localism, ideology of keeping money in a local economy * Local purchasing, a movement to buy local products and services * Conflict in surf culture, between local residents and visitors for access to beaches with l ...
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Locality (disambiguation) Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdi ...
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Localization (disambiguation) Localization or localisation may refer to: Biology * Localization of function, locating psychological functions in the brain or nervous system; see Linguistic intelligence * Localization of sensation, ability to tell what part of the body is a ...
* Locus (disambiguation) *
Lokal (disambiguation) Lokal may refer to: * Kanal Lokal, Swedish TV channel * Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, German newspaper * ''Lokal'' (Swiss brand), a brand of food from ''Manor ''(department store) See also * Lokal express, Luxembourg newspaper * Local (disambiguation ...
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