LOCAL

'Local' may refer to any of the following:
In 'Medicine':

★ Local refers to a restricted part of the organism. Such as a local anesthesia.
In 'computing':

★ Locale, a term used in software development to refer to the user's location

★ Localization, the process of customizing software for users in different locations

★ local variable

★ .local, a pTLD
In 'Sociology':

★ Localism, is the emphasis on local, small-scale, or exclusive cultural aspects and systems, as opposed to more larger, inclusive, (and perhaps ''unmanageable'') systems.
In 'Mathematics':

★ Locally, a term used in topology

★ Local ring a ring with a proper Ideal
In 'Physics':

★ Local, describes theories which are Lorentz invariant.
In 'Economics':

★ Locals are individual chapters of labour unions.
In 'Culture':

★ Local H, a rock band from Zion, Illinois

★ ''Local Hero'', a 1983 film starring Burt Lancaster

★ Local, the comic book series by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly

★ Another name for a public house or pub.
In 'Astronomy:'

★ Local Interstellar Cloud, the interstellar cloud that contains the Solar System

★ Local Bubble, the larger bubble of gas that contains the Local Interstellar Cloud

★ The Local Arm, the arm of the Milky Way that contains the Solar System

★ Local Group, the group of galaxies that contains the Milky Way

★ Local Supercluster, the supercluster (also known as the Virgo Supercluster) that contains the Milky Way and the Local Group
In 'Politics:'

★ Local Party, a party which contested elections in Slough, England in the 1990s
In 'Trade Unions:''

★ A Local union, or ''local'' for short, is a branch of a larger trade union.