title: Local
text: # Local
  
  Local may refer to:
  
  ## Geography and transportation
  
  * Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand
  * Local, Missouri, a community in the United States
  * Local government, a form of public administration, usually the lowest tier of administration
  * Local news, coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities
  * Local union, a locally based trade union organization which forms part of a larger union
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * Local (comics), a limited series comic book by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly
  * Local (novel), a 2001 novel by Jaideep Varma
  * Local TV LLC, an American television broadcasting company
  * Locast, a non-profit streaming service offering local, over-the-air television
  * The Local (film), a 2008 action-drama film
  * Local (2023 film), a 2023 political-drama film
  * The Local, English-language news websites in several European countries
  
  ## Computing
  
  * .local, a network address component
  * Local variable, a variable that is given local scope
  
  ## Life sciences and health care
  
  * Local anesthesia, any technique to induce the absence of sensation in part of the body
  * Local disease (localized disease), disease confined to an area of the body
  
  ## Mathematics
  
  * Local class field theory, the study of abelian extensions of local fields
  * Local field, a special type of field that is a locally compact topological field with respect to a non-discrete topology
     * Local Fields (book), an algebraic number theory textbook by Jean-Pierre Serre
  * Local martingale, a type of stochastic process, satisfying the localized version of the martingale property
  * Local property, a property which occurs on sufficiently small or arbitrarily small neighborhoods of points
  * Local ring, the branch of commutative algebra that studies local rings and their modules
  * Local symbol (disambiguation), uses in various subfields of mathematics
  * Local zeta-function, a function whose logarithmic derivative is a generating function for the number of solutions of a set of equations defined over a finite field
  * Local-global principle, the idea that one can find an integer solution to an equation using the Chinese remainder theorem
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Local theory, a physical theory that obeys the principle of locality
  * Pub, a drinking establishment, known as a "local" to its regulars
  * Local language
  