Local may refer to:

Geography and transportation

Local (train) In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and Passenger train, transport people or Rail freight transport, freight. Trains are typically pul ...

, 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), ''Local'' (comics), a limited series comic book by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly * Local (novel), ''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), ''The Local'' (film), a 2008 action-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), ''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

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