LOCAL

.local

Networking device hostnames ending with .local are often employed in private networks, where they are resolved either via the multicast domain name service and/or local Domain Name System servers. The implementation of both approaches on the same network can be problematic, however, so resolving such names via “unicast” DNS servers has fallen into disfavor as computers, printers and other devices supporting zero-configuration networking have become increasingly common.

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local

Noun

  1. A person who lives nearby.
    It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
  2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
    I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
  3. A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
    The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
  4. One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
    I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
  5. A locally scoped identifier.
    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.
  6. An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

Adjective

  1. From or in a nearby location.
  2. Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
  3. Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
  4. Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
  5. Descended from an indigenous population.


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