The place where something happens.

plural of locale

(transitive) To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.

With respect to place; in place. / In or from the local area. / (medicine) In a restricted part of the body.

The act of localizing. / (software engineering) The act, process, or result of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region.

From or in a nearby location. / (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

A person who lives near a given place. / A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. / (rail transport) Clipping of local train.

In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

(uncountable) Attachment to a particular local place; feelings or policies which emphasize local phenomena. / (countable, uncountable, linguistics) A linguistic feature that is unique to a locality.

The fact or quality of having a position in space. / The features or surroundings of a particular place. / (uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.