Locality

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Locality \Lo*cal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Localitiees}. [L. localitas:
     cf. F. localit['e].]
     1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place,
        or of being contained within definite limits.
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              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.
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     2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical
        place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
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     3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality
        of trial. --Blackstone.
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     4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability
        to remember the relative positions of places.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  locality
       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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "locality":
     abode, area, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, district,
     domain, emplacement, field, habitat, haunt, hole, home,
     latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, located, location, locus,
     native environment, neighborhood, pinpoint, place, placed,
     placement, point, position, positioned, province, range, region,
     section, sector, set, site, situate, situation, situs, sphere,
     spot, stamping ground, stead, territory, tract, vicinage, vicinity,
     whereabout, whereabouts, zone
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  locality
       
          1. In sequential architectures programs tend to access data
          that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is
          at an address near recently referenced data (spatial
          locality).  This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a
          {cache} memory.
       
          2. In a multi-processor architecture with distributed memory
          it takes longer to access the memory attached to a different
          processor.  This overhead increases with the number of
          communicating processors. Thus to efficiently employ many
          processors on a problem we must increase the proportion of
          references which are to local memory.
       
          (1995-02-28)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LOCALITY, Scotch law. This name is given to a life rent created in marriage 
  contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life 
  rent of terce. 1 Bell's Com. 55. See Jointure.