Meaning

noun public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops

noun anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body

adjective relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area

originFrom Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”). The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings…

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