locally
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1 in the nearby area (adv.) B1 Intermediatein the specific area or town where you live or where something is happening.
within a particular area, neighbourhood, or town; often used to describe the origin of goods or the scope of an event.
ExampleWe try to buy our vegetables locally to support the farmers in our town.
ExampleThe restaurant prides itself on sourcing all its ingredients locally, ensuring that the menu reflects the seasonal produce of the surrounding countryside.
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2 affecting one small part (adv.) B2 Upper Intermediate Technical Medicineaffecting only one small part of the body or a machine.
restricted to a specific part of a physical system or organism rather than affecting the whole.
ExampleThe doctor applied the cream locally to treat the small rash on my arm.
ExampleThe anaesthetic was administered locally to numb the specific area of the jaw before the dental procedure began.
- topically
- systemically
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3 near a specific point (adv.) C2 Proficiency Technical Mathwithin a very small area around a specific point.
relating to a property that holds within a sufficiently small neighbourhood of a given point.
ExampleThe curve looks like a straight line if you examine it locally.
ExampleWhile the manifold may be complex in its overall structure, it remains locally Euclidean at every point.
From local + -ly.