[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

locality \local"ity\, 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.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   2. position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical
      place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
      1913 webster

   3. limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality
      of trial. --blackstone.
      1913 webster

   4. phren. the perceptive faculty concerned with the ability
      to remember the relative positions of places.
      1913 webster
see also:
localitiees 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

locality
     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"; "i will drop in on you the next time i am
         in this neck of the woods" syn: vicinity, neighborhood,
          neighbourhood, neck of the woods
see also:
vicinity neighborhood neighbourhood neck of the woods 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

50 moby thesaurus words for "locality":
   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

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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
     
     
see also:
cache 

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

locality, scotch law. this name is given to a life rent created in marriage 
contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life 
rent of terce. 1 bell's com. 55. see jointure. 

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