# locally

Pronunciation: say "LOH-kuh-lee" US /ˈloʊkəli/, UK /ˈləʊkəli/

## Adverb

1. In or from the area close by, such as the town or neighborhood being talked about.
   - Simple: In or from the area near where you live or are.
   - _Most of the restaurant's vegetables are grown locally, some within a mile of the kitchen._
   - _The old ferry was known locally as the Bathtub because of its round shape._
2. In or to one limited part of the body only.
   - Simple: In only one part of the body.
   - _The ointment should be applied locally to the rash twice a day._
   - _The tumor had grown locally but had not spread to other organs._
3. In terms of physical place or position.
   - Simple: In terms of where something is.
   - _The theologian argued that heaven is not locally above us but a state of being._
   - _The two chapels are locally separated by a courtyard, yet they share one congregation._
4. In mathematics, when restricted to a small enough region around a particular point, or in some uses around each point.
   - Simple: In math, inside a small enough space around one point, or around every point.
   - _A sphere is locally Euclidean, since any small patch of it looks like a flat plane._
   - _The function is locally bounded, so near each point its values stay within some limit._

## Origin

Formed from local + the adverb-forming suffix -ly.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/locally (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).