ALL meanings of locality
lo·cal·i·ty
L l - noun plural locality a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality. 1
- noun plural locality the state or fact of being local or having a location: the locality that every material object must have. 1
- noun locality area, district 1
- noun locality physics: occupying space 1
- noun Technical meaning of locality 1. In sequential architectures programs tend to access data that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is at an address near recently referenced data (spatial locality). This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a cache memory. 2. In a multi-processor architecture with distributed memory it takes longer to access the memory attached to a different processor. This overhead increases with the number of communicating processors. Thus to efficiently employ many processors on a problem we must increase the proportion of references which are to local memory. 1
- noun locality The position or site of something. 1
- noun locality The fact or quality of having a position in space. 0
- noun locality The features or surroundings of a particular place. 0
- noun locality (Uncountable Noun) (mathematics, computing) The condition of being local. 0
- noun locality The situation or position of an object. 0
- noun locality An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood. 0
- noun locality Limitation to a county, district, or place. 0
- noun locality (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. 0
- countable noun locality A locality is a small area of a country or city. 0
- noun locality a neighbourhood or area 0
- noun locality the site or scene of an event 0
- noun locality the fact or condition of having a location or position in space 0
- noun locality position with regard to surrounding objects, landmarks, etc. 0
- noun locality a place; district; neighborhood 0