nonlocal

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English

Etymology

From non- +‎ local.

Adjective

nonlocal (not comparable)

  1. Not local; not specific to a location
    • 2009 January 16, Holland Cotter, “Black History, Alive in Washington”, in New York Times:
      In 1967 the Smithsonian Institution set up a satellite exhibition and research center here, the Anacostia Community Museum, which defines community in a nonlocal way.

Noun

nonlocal (plural nonlocals)

  1. One who is not a local; a stranger or foreigner.
    • 2013, Chad Haines, Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan:
      Touristic discourse is inherently unlocal: a construction of images and representations that delocalize a tourist destination, repackaging it into terms and images easily circulated and consumed by nonlocals.
  2. (computing) An identifier that is not locally scoped.

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