locality n : 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, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]

English

Etymology

From Latin localitas.

Noun

1. The fact or quality of having a position in space.
2. p The features or surroundings of a particular place.
3. The situation or position of an object.
4. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.

References

Locality is a term associated with a place or Location (geography) but may also refer to:

• Locality of reference in computer science, which describes how programs typically access data
• Principle of locality in physics
• Locality (statistics) in statistics
• Locality (linguistics) in linguistics
• The official English translation of "tätort", the term for an urban area in Sweden
• Suburbs and localities (Australia), a geographic division in rural areas used for addresses.

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