Static vs Local - What's the difference?
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Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
Immobile; fixed in place; having no motion.
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(programming) Occupying fixed memory, allocated when a program is loaded.
Interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television.
(by extension) Interference or obstruction from people.
Something that is not part of any perceived universe phenomena; having no motion; no particle; no wavelength.
Static electricity.
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.
In programming|lang=en terms the difference between static and local
is that static is (programming) occupying fixed memory, allocated when a program is loaded while local is (programming) a locally scoped identifier.As adjectives the difference between static and local
is that static is unchanging; that cannot or does not change while local is from or in a nearby location.As nouns the difference between static and local
is that static is interference on a broadcast signal caused by atmospheric disturbances; heard as crackles on radio, or seen as random specks on television while local is a person who lives nearby.static
English
Alternative forms
* statickAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* stable * (Having no motion) stillAntonyms
* (Unchanging) dynamic * (Having no motion) dynamic, kinetic, mobile * (computing) dynamicDerived terms
* hydrostatic * statical * staticityNoun
(-)Anagrams
*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.
