R vs Local - What's the difference?
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The eighteenth letter of the .
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alveolar trill
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Image:Latin R.png, Capital and lowercase versions of R , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter R.png, Uppercase and lowercase R in Fraktur
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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 a letter r
is the eighteenth letter of the.As a symbol r
is roentgen (unit ).As an adjective local is
from or in a nearby location.As a noun local is
a person who lives nearby.r
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=q, next=s, image= (wikipedia r)Etymology 1
Modification of capital letter R by not closing the bottom of the loop but continuing into the leg to save a pen stroke, later shortening the right leg into a simple arc.Letter
See also
(Latn-script) * (select symbols) * (other scripts) Cyrillic * dog's letterEtymology 2
Symbol
(Alveolar trill) (head)Synonyms
*See also
{{Letter , page=R , NATO=Romeo , Morse=·–· , Character=R , Braille=? }}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.
