Crossword clues for locality
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Locality \Lo*cal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Localitiees. [L. localitas: cf. F. localit['e].]
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The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.
--Glanvill. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.
--Blackstone.(Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
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.
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 considered as the site of certain activity; a neighbourhood. 6 Limitation to a county, district, or place. 7 (context dated phrenology English) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
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, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
Wikipedia
Locality may refer to:
- Locality (settlement)
- Locality (linguistics)
In linguistics, locality refers to the proximity of elements in a linguistic structure. Constraints on locality limit the span over which rules can apply to a particular structure. Theories of transformational grammar use syntactic locality constraints to explain restrictions on argument selection, syntactic binding, and syntactic movement.
Locality in astronomy is in theory closeness of the observer relative to the observed astronomical phenomenon under consideration, and thus in practice the relative closeness of the phenomenon to the star system of the Sun.
Being local is an ambiguous condition, and always relative to the order of magnitude of the relevant phenomenon. The term "local" is commonly applied to structures on five successively larger scales beyond the roughly two-light-years diameter of the Solar System:
- The Local Interstellar Cloud containing the Solar System, roughly 30 light years across
- The Local Bubble of gas in turn containing it, 300 light years or more across
- The Local Arm, a.k.a. the Orion Arm (of the Milky Way galaxy), 3,500 light years wide, and approximately 10,000 long
- The Local Group, the group of galaxies that contains the Milky Way, 10 million light-years across
- The Local Supercluster or Virgo Supercluster, 110 million light-years across
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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.