Campus vs Local - What's the difference?
campus | local |
The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
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To confine to campus as a punishment.
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From or in a nearby location.
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(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
(mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
Descended from an indigenous population.
A person who lives nearby.
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
(rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
(British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
(programming) A locally scoped identifier.
(US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
As nouns the difference between campus and local
is that campus is campus (of an educational institution, etc) while local is a person who lives nearby.As an adjective local is
from or in a nearby location.campus
English
Noun
(es)Mr Geek goes to Washington, passage=From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street
Usage notes
* The Latinate plural form campi is sometimes used, particularly with respect to colleges or universities; however, it is sometimes frowned upon. By contrast, the common plural form campuses is universally accepted.Derived terms
* campus legend * off-campus / on-campusVerb
(es)local
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
An internet of airborne things
Synonyms
* (medicine) topicalAntonyms
* globalNoun
(en noun)- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local .
- I got barred from my local , so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
- Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.