You can mark you interesting snippets of text that will be available through a unique link in your browser.

Locality

Translation
Locality
Locality Lo*cal"i*ty, n.; pl. {Localitiees}. [L. localitas: cf. F. localit['e].] 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. [1913 Webster]

It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]

2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant. [1913 Webster]

3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

Synonyms:

  
Share  

Look at other dictionaries:

  • locality — 1> местоположение; местонахождение Ex: sense (hump) of locality способность ориентироваться (определять свое местонахождение) 2> местность, район Ex: defended locality воен. район обороны 3> населенный пункт (тж. inhabited (populated) locality)… …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

  • Locality — is a term associated with a place or Location (geography) but may also refer to: * Locality of reference in computer science, which describes how programs typically access data * Principle of locality in physics * Locality (statistics) in… …   Wikipedia

  • locality — noun 1) местность; район, участок; местоположение; defendedlocality inhabited locality populated locality 2) oft. pl. окрестность; inthe locality of поблизости от 3) pl. населенные пункты 4) признаки, харак терные черты местности; sense (или coll …   Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  • locality — ləuˈkælɪtɪ сущ. 1) местность; район, участок; край, место inhabited locality populated locality Syn : region, district 2) а) мн. населенные пункты б) часто мн. окрестность 3) а) отличит …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

  • locality — /loh kal i tee/, n., pl. localities. 1. a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality. 2. the state or fact of being local or having a location: the… …   Universalium

  • locality — местность ; место ; местонахождение ; пункт ; район ; участок ; …   Англо-Русский словарь финансовых терминов

  • locality — noun (plural ties) Date: 1628 1. the fact or condition of having a location in space or time 2. a particular place, situation, or location …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • locality — населённый пункт, посёлок; местность; район; местоположение; определение местоположения …   Англо-русский словарь строительных терминов

  • locality — the geographical position of an individual, population or collection …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • locality — местность …   Англо-русский геоэкологический словарь

Фильмы

  • The Nanai Portrait., 1979 — Annotation: About the life of small ethnic groups of Siberia. Film description: Pictures of the Far East of the artist EA Korolenko, and others at an exhibition in Moscow. Works by local artists…
  • A Conspiracy against the Republic, 1980 — Annotation: About the exhausting days of Afghanistan, which got rid of Hafizullah Amin's rule; attempts of the foreign and internal counterrevolution to destroy achievements of the Afghan people. The…
  • A Report From the Caribbean Meridian., 1980 — Annotation: On the example of Central America countries range, USA intervention into the national liberation struggle of these countries' people for their independence is shown. Film description: The…