Meaning of LOCALITY
| Pronunciation: | | low'kalitee
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity |
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| | See Also: | | Latin Quarter, Left Bank, Montmartre, place, proximity, Right Bank, scenery, section | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | 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. |
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| | Definition: | | a very large site or site-area composed of 2 or more concentrations or clusterings of cultural remains. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abode, area, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, district, domain, emplacement, field, habitat, haunt, hole, home, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, located, location, locus, native environment, neighborhood, pinpoint, place, placed, placement, point, position, positioned, province, range, region, section, sector, set, site, situate, situation, situs, sphere, spot, stamping ground, stead, territory, tract, vicinage, vicinity, whereabout, whereabouts, zone |
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