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Local vs Nonlocal - What's the difference?

local | nonlocal |

As adjectives the difference between local and nonlocal

is that local is from or in a nearby location while nonlocal is in a way that is not local, or not specific to a location.

As nouns the difference between local and nonlocal

is that local is a person who lives nearby while nonlocal is one who is not a local; a stranger or foreigner.

local

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • From or in a nearby location.
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    • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (medicine) topical

    Antonyms

    * global

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who lives nearby.
    • It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
    • I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
  • (rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
    • The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local .
  • (British) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
    • I got barred from my local , so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
  • (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
    • 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.
  • (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

    • Synonyms

    * (rail transport) stopper

    Antonyms

    * (rail transport) fast, express

    Derived terms

    * localism * locally

    Related terms

    * locus * locality * localization * localize * locate * location * locative * locator

    External links

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    nonlocal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In a way that is not local, or not specific to a location
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Holland Cotter, Black History, Alive in Washington, New York Times citation
    • , passage=In 1967 the Smithsonian Institution set up a satellite exhibition and research center here, the Anacostia Community Museum, which defines community in a nonlocal way. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is not a local; a stranger or foreigner.
  • (computing) An identifier that is not locally scoped.