locality

Noun

locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)

1. The fact or quality of having a position in space.
   • It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC
2. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
   • a rural locality
3. (uncountable) The condition of being local.
   • This shows temporal locality of reference in action because the CPU accesses i at three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, page 154
4. The situation or position of an object.
5. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
6. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
   • locality of trial1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
   • The locality of trial required by the common law seems a consequence of the antient locality of jurisdiction. All over the world, actions transitory follow the person of the defendant, territorial suits must be discussed in the territorial tribunal. I may sue a Frenchman here for a debt contracted...1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England: 3:349--67, 370--81, 383--85
7. A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village
8. (quantum mechanics) The property or condition of a physical system adhering to the principle of locality.
9. (dated) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.