Local

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
• 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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Local
• All pages with titles containing local
• Local group (disambiguation)
• Locale (disambiguation)
• Localism (disambiguation)
• Locality (disambiguation)
• Localization (disambiguation)
• Locus (disambiguation)
• Lokal (disambiguation)