locality

5 definitions found

locality - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Locality \Lo*cal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Localitiees. [L. localitas:
     cf. F. localit['e].]
     1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place,
        or of being contained within definite limits.
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              It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of
              quantity
              and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with
              grosser locality.                     --Glanvill.
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     2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical
        place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
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     3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality
        of trial. --Blackstone.
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     4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability
        to remember the relative positions of places.
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locality - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  locality
      n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the
           vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he
           always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood";
           "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of
           the woods" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood,
           neighbourhood, neck of the woods]

locality - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  locality
  
     1. In sequential architectures programs tend to access data
     that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is
     at an address near recently referenced data (spatial
     locality).  This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a
     cache memory.
  
     2. In a multi-processor architecture with distributed memory
     it takes longer to access the memory attached to a different
     processor.  This overhead increases with the number of
     communicating processors. Thus to efficiently employ many
     processors on a problem we must increase the proportion of
     references which are to local memory.
  
     (1995-02-28)
  

locality - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  LOCALITY, Scotch law. This name is given to a life rent created in marriage 
  contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life 
  rent of terce. 1 Bell's Com. 55. See Jointure. 
  
  

locality - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "locality":
     abode, area, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, district,
     domain, emplacement, field, habitat, haunt, hole, home,
     latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, located, location, locus,
     native environment, neighborhood, pinpoint, place, placed,
     placement, point, position, positioned, province, range, region,
     section, sector, set, site, situate, situation, situs, sphere,
     spot, stamping ground, stead, territory, tract, vicinage, vicinity,
     whereabout, whereabouts, zone