locality
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locality (ləʊˈkælɪtɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | a neighbourhood or area |
| 2. | the site or scene of an event |
| 3. | the fact or condition of having a location or position in space |
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Locality
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
locality
1620s, "fact of having a place," from Fr. localité, from L.L. localitatem (nom. localitas) "locality," from localis "belonging to a place" (see local). Meaning "a place or district" is from 1830.
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Computing Dictionary
locality definition
1. In sequential architectures programs tend to access data that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is at an address near recently referenced data (spatial locality). This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a cache memory.
2. In a multi-processor architecture with distributed memory it takes longer to access the memory attached to a different processor. This overhead increases with the number of communicating processors. Thus to efficiently employ many processors on a problem we must increase the proportion of references which are to local memory.
(1995-02-28)
Example sentences
Plants with the variant often coexist in the same locality as plants without it in many parts of the world.
The winter flu epidemic in a given locality reaches its peak in two to three weeks and lasts five to six weeks.
Move your cursor over the yellow dots to see the name of the locality.
The excitement is not confined to any special locality.
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