Locality

Quick meaning: Locality is a noun meaning The fact or quality of having a position in space.

Meaning

The fact or quality of having a position in space.

More Meanings

1. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
2. (uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.
3. The situation or position of an object.
4. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
5. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
6. (geography) A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village
7. (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Example Sentences

a rural locality

locality of trial

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

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.

Word Forms

• localities

Synonyms for locality

Depending on context, synonyms include vicinity, neighborhood, neighbourhood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vicinity, neighborhood, neighbourhood, location, locale, localization.

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