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lo⋅cal⋅i⋅ty

  [loh-kal-i-tee]
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–noun, plural -ties.
1. a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
2. the state or fact of being local or having a location: the locality that every material object must have.
Origin:
1620–30; < LL locālitās. See local, -ity
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lo·cal·i·ty   (lō-kāl'ĭ-tē)   
n.   pl. lo·cal·i·ties
  1. A particular neighborhood, place, or district: "Localities, even individual villages, developed their own languages" (Wall Street Journal).
  2. The fact or quality of having position in space.

[French localité, from Late Latin locālitās, from locālis, local; see local.]
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Locality

Lo*cal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Localitiees. [L. localitas: cf. F. localit['e].]

1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.

It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. --Glanvill.

2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.

3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. --Blackstone.

4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
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Language Translation for : locality
Spanish: localidad,
German: die Örtlichkeit,
Japanese: 地域
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locality 
1628, "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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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locality
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)

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