locality

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):

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• Rhymes: -ælɪti
• Hyphenation: lo‧cal‧i‧ty

Noun

locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)

1. 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[otes] 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.

2. The features or surroundings of a particular place.

   a rural locality

3. (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 i at three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.

4. The situation or position of an object.
5. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
6. 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

   • 1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England: 3:349--67, 370--81, 383--85:

     The locality of trial required by the common law seems a consequence of the antient locality of jurisdiction. All over the world, actions transitory follow the person of the defendant, territorial suits must be discussed in the territorial tribunal. I may sue a Frenchman here for a debt contracted abroad; but lands lying in France must be sued for there, and English lands must be sued for in the kingdom of England.

7. (geography) A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village
8. (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Derived terms

• type locality

Translations

fact or quality of having a position in space

• Bulgarian: местоположение (bg) n (mestopoloženie)
• Finnish: sijaitseminen (fi)
• German: Räumlichkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: lokalitás
• Maori: taiwhanga

features or surroundings of a particular place

• Bulgarian: околности (bg) f pl (okolnosti)
• Finnish: ympäristö (fi), seutu (fi)
• French: région (fr)
• German: Gegend (de) f, Örtlichkeit (de) f
• Greek: τοποθεσία (el) f (topothesía)
• Plautdietsch: Jäajent f

maths, computing: condition of being local

• Finnish: paikallisuus (fi)
• German: Lokalität (de) f
• Polish: lokalność f

situation or position of an object

• Finnish: sijainti (fi), paikka (fi)
• German: Ort (de) m, Lage (de) f, örtliche Lage f
• Greek: θέση (el) f (thési)
• Maori: tūnga, wāhi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lokalitet m

  Nynorsk: lokalitet m

• Swedish: lokalitet (sv) c

site of certain activity, neighbourhood

• Czech: lokalita (cs) f
• Finnish: paikkakunta (fi), paikka (fi)
• French: quartier (fr) m, voisinage (fr) m
• German: Gegend (de) f, Viertel (de) n, nähere Umgebung f, Ortsteil (de) m
• Greek: γειτονιά (el) f (geitoniá)
• Malayalam: പ്രദേശം (ml) (pradēśaṁ)
• Maori: taiwhanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lokalitet m

  Nynorsk: lokalitet m

• Plautdietsch: Jäajent f
• Polish: sąsiedztwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: localidade (pt) f
• Spanish: vecindario (es) m, vecindarios (es) m pl, localidad (es)

limitation to a county, district, or place

• Finnish: paikkakunta (fi), paikka (fi)
• German: Ortsbezogenheit f, örtliche Zuständigkeit f

built-up area (city, town or village)

• French: localité (fr) f (small town or village)
• German: Ortschaft (de) f
• Polish: miejscowość (pl) f
• Russian: населённый пункт m (naseljónnyj punkt)
• Swedish: tätort (sv) c
• Ukrainian: насе́лений пункт (uk) m (nasélenyj punkt)

phrenology: perceptive faculty

• Finnish: sijainti (fi)

References

• “locality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• coitally