locally
- 1In or from the area near where you live or are.
We buy our eggs locally from a farm down the road.
Do you work locally, or do you drive into the city?
Similarnearby
Oppositenationally, internationally, globally
- 2In only one part of the body.
The doctor numbed my mouth locally before pulling the tooth.
This cream works locally, only where you rub it in.
Similartopically
Oppositesystemically
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- 3In terms of where something is.
Some people believe God is not locally in one place but everywhere at once.
Philosophers once asked whether a thought is locally anywhere at all.
Similarspatially, physically
- 4In math, inside a small enough space around one point, or around every point.
The surface of the earth is locally flat, even though the whole planet is round.
If you zoom in close enough, the curve looks straight locally.
Oppositeglobally
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Origin
From local and the ending -ly.