Local

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Local usually refers to something nearby, or in the immediate area.

Local may refer to:

Media and publishing

• Local (novel), a 2001 novel written by Jaideep Varma
• Local (comics), a twelve-part Oni Press comic book limited series written by Brian Wood and illustrated by Ryan Kelly
• Local news, coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities
• Local TV, a television broadcasting company which operates 20 television stations in the United States

Computing

• Local variable, a variable that is given local scope
• Locale, environment variables of operating systems for region- or language-specific formatting options
• .local, network address component

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-global principle, idea that one can find an integer solution to an equation using the Chinese remainder theorem
• Local martingale, a type of stochastic process, satisfying the localized version of the martingale property
• Local property, 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

Other uses

• Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand
• Local anesthesia, any technique to induce the absence of sensation in part of the body
• Local government, a form of public administration, usually the lowest tier of administration
• Local union, a locally based trade union organization which forms part of a larger union
• Pub, a drinking establishment, known as "locals" to regulars

See also

• Internationalization and localization, adapting computer software to different languages or regions
• Local theory, a physical theory that obeys the principle of locality
• Local group (disambiguation)
• Localism (disambiguation)
• Locality (disambiguation)
• Localization (disambiguation)
• Locus (disambiguation)
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