Meaning

• A person who lives near a given place.

  "It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."

• A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

  "I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."

• A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

  "The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."

• One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.

  "I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."

• A locally scoped identifier.

  "Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable."

• An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

Meaning

• From or in a nearby location.

  "We prefer local produce."

• (of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

• (of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.

• Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

  "The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia."

• Descended from an indigenous population.

  "Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population."

Meaning

• In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

  "It's never been more important to buy local."

Meaning

• An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.