Local
# 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
