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loc.

loc. is the abbreviation of locative.

loc. is the abbreviation of local.

Meaning of locative

Adjective

locative (not comparable)

  1. Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
    • a locative adjective

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Meaning of local

Adjective

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

  1. From or in a nearby location.
    • We prefer local produce.
  2. Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline.
    • local disk drive
    Antonyms:
    remote
  3. Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only accessible within a certain portion of a program.
    Antonyms:
    global
  4. (not comparable) Satisfied by at least one open neighborhood of every point.
    • A Hausdorff space satisfying local compactness need not be (globally) compact!
  5. (not comparable) Satisfied by arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.
  6. (not comparable) Satisfied by every finitely generated subgroup.

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Questions about loc.

What is loc. the abbreviation of?
Loc. is the abbreviation of locative.

Words near loc. in the dictionary

  1. lobworm
  2. lobworms
  3. loc
  4. loc'd
  5. loc'd out
  6. loc.
  7. loc. cit.
  8. loca
  9. Locach
  10. local
  11. local administrative unit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loc. (page history and authors); locative (page history and authors); local (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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