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locality
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As a noun, locality means the fact or quality of having a position in space.
Meanings of locality
9 meaningsnoun
The fact or quality of having a position in space.
The features or surroundings of a particular place.
mathscomputingThe condition of being local.
The situation or position of an object.
An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
Limitation to a county, district, or place.
geographyA built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village
A surrounding or nearby regionlocation
“the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville”
“it is a rugged locality”
“he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood”
Similar: vicinity, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods
Older and rare meanings (1)
datedphrenologyThe perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).