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locality

noun
/loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/US/ləʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/UK

Etymology

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local + -ity.

  1. derived from localité

Definitions

  1. The fact or quality of having a position in space.

    • It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.

  2. The features or surroundings of a particular place.

    • a rural locality

  3. The condition of being local.

    • This shows temporal locality of reference in action because the CPU accesses i at three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The situation or position of an object.

    2. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities

      An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.

    3. Limitation to a county, district, or place.

      • locality of trial

    4. A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village

    5. The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of…

      The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for locality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA