locality

locality
    n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the
         vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he
         always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood";
         "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of
         the woods" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality}, {neighborhood},
         {neighbourhood}, {neck of the woods}]
    

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.
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            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.
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   2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical
      place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
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   3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality
      of trial. --Blackstone.
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   4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability
      to remember the relative positions of places.
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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.

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LOCALITY, Scotch law. This name is given to a life rent created in marriage 
contracts in favor of the wife, instead of leaving her to her legal life 
rent of terce. 1 Bell's Com. 55. See Jointure. 
    

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "locality":
      abode, area, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, district,
      domain, emplacement, field, habitat, haunt, hole, home,
      latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, located, location, locus,
      native environment, neighborhood, pinpoint, place, placed,
      placement, point, position, positioned, province, range, region,
      section, sector, set, site, situate, situation, situs, sphere,
      spot, stamping ground, stead, territory, tract, vicinage, vicinity,
      whereabout, whereabouts, zone