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locality

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The fact or quality of having a position in space. 2 (g: p) The features or surroundings of a particular place. 3 (context uncountable maths computing English) The condition of being local 4 The situation or position of an object. 5 An area or district ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "fact of having a place," from French localité , from Late Latin localitatem (nominative localitas ) "locality," from localis "belonging to a place" (see local ). Meaning "a place or district" is from 1830.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE different ▪ Efficiency With labour mobility, inefficiency can arise from fiscal spending in different localities . ▪ Councils will set rents at a reasonable level, reflecting income levels in the different regions ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" [syn: vicinity ...

Usage examples of locality.

Mr Parmenter, as he handed the aerogram across the big table littered with maps, plans and drawings of localities terrestrial and celestial.

First, in huge type right across the page, was the brief statement that The Avenger had now committed his ninth crime, and that he had chosen quite a new locality, namely, the lonely stretch of rising ground known to Londoners as Primrose Hill.

Tasman, therefore, unless he succeeded in obtaining copies in Banda, must have started on his voyage of exploration without these documents which were so essential to his success in identifying the localities visited and charted by Carstenszoon.

They decided that two of them should stay constantly on board the raft, at least so long as they remained in that locality, and that Bim should also be added to the protective force.

A microscopical examination of the green copper ores of secondary origin in the Clifton and Morenci district of Arizona proves brochantite to be of extremely common occurrence mostly intergrown with malachite which effectually masks its presence: it is not unlikely that the malachite of other localities will on examination be found to be intergrown with brochantite.

Back River, Bush River, Gunpowder Creek,--lives there the man with soul so dead that his memory has cerements to wrap up these senseless names in the same envelopes with their meaningless localities?

Butler was elsewhere, exploring the locality round Cleaver Hall, checking its defences.

The rector, after examining the localities and submitting to a lengthy interrogatory first my accomplice, who very naturally was considered as the most guilty, and then myself, whom nothing could convict of the offence, ordered us to get up and go to church to attend mass.

As to our project of running away, she did not think it would be very difficult to carry it into execution, but that it would be better to wait until she knew the locality better.

The turn brought Silver City on the port side where it was easily perceivable in the dry, dustless atmosphere of the locality.

In order to resolve the controversy over the age of the eoliths, the British Association, a prestigious scientific society, financed excavations in the high-level Plateau gravels and other localities in close proximity to Ightham.

Although elephantiasis is met with in all climates, it is more common in the tropics, and its occurrence has been repeatedly demonstrated in these localities to be dependent on the presence in the lymphatics of the filaria sanguinis hominis.

Messrs Gilder and Plater had gone into the town to familiarize themselves with its localities, while Grimshaw was left to look out for the raft.

She had mentioned the large house for which the youth had been making after he had jumped out of the car and she had described the rest of the locality and the turning on to the main road to Gledge End.

The razing and burning of strongholds continued in many localities as the tide ebbed and flowed.