Local
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Local may refer to:
Geography and transportation
- Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand
- Local, Missouri, a community in the United States
- Local government, a form of public administration, usually the lowest tier of administration
- Local news, coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities
- Local union, a locally based trade union organization which forms part of a larger union
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Local (comics), a limited series comic book by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly
- Local (novel), a 2001 novel by Jaideep Varma
- Local TV LLC, an American television broadcasting company
- Locast, a non-profit streaming service offering local, over-the-air television
- The Local (film), a 2008 action-drama film
- Local (2023 film), a 2023 political-drama film
- The Local, English-language news websites in several European countries
Computing
- .local, a network address component
- Local variable, a variable that is given local scope
Life sciences and health care
- Local anesthesia, any technique to induce the absence of sensation in part of the body
- Local disease (localized disease), disease confined to an area of the body
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 martingale, a type of stochastic process, satisfying the localized version of the martingale property
- Local property, a 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
- Local-global principle, the idea that one can find an integer solution to an equation using the Chinese remainder theorem
Other uses
- Local theory, a physical theory that obeys the principle of locality
- Pub, a drinking establishment, known as a "local" to its regulars
- Local language