locality
noun
lo·cal·i·ty
lō-ˈka-lə-tē 
plural localities
1
: the fact or condition of having a location in space or time
2
: a particular place, situation, or location
Examples of locality in a Sentence
The plant has only been found in one locality.
a locality with high housing prices
Recent Examples on the Web
Users can find out where prices stand in their local area relative to the national average; or look up localities nearby to better understand how prices vary in their region.
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ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
Advanced multitenant systems build on the principle of data locality, ensuring that each client's data and interactions or prompts remain contained and are never used to train models that could serve others.
—Khash Kiani, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The evidence comes from sauropod bones unearthed at the Ibirá locality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
One of the very attractive features of the amplituhedron, one that was noticed right away by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, was that these two features, unitarity and locality, are necessary (but not fundamental) consequences that can be derived by using the amplituhedron framework.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
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ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
Advanced multitenant systems build on the principle of data locality, ensuring that each client's data and interactions or prompts remain contained and are never used to train models that could serve others.
—Khash Kiani, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The evidence comes from sauropod bones unearthed at the Ibirá locality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
One of the very attractive features of the amplituhedron, one that was noticed right away by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, was that these two features, unitarity and locality, are necessary (but not fundamental) consequences that can be derived by using the amplituhedron framework.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for locality
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“Locality.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/locality. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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