locality
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English
Etymology
From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local + -ity.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ləʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ælɪti
- Hyphenation: lo‧cal‧i‧ty
Noun
locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)
- The fact or quality of having a position in space.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; , London: E. C for Henry Eversden , →OCLC:
- It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.
- The features or surroundings of a particular place.
- (uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.
- 2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, page 154:
- This shows temporal locality of reference in action because the CPU accesses
iat three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.
- The situation or position of an object.
- An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
- Limitation to a county, district, or place.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- locality of trial
- (geography) A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village
- (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Derived terms
Translations
fact or quality of having a position in space
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features or surroundings of a particular place
maths, computing: condition of being local
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situation or position of an object
site of certain activity, neighbourhood
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limitation to a county, district, or place
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built-up area (city, town or village)
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References
- “locality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.