locally

From local +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈləʊkəli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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locally (comparative more locally, superlative most locally)

1. With respect to place; in place.

   These things are locally separated.

2. In or from the local area.

   We live locally.

   In this shop we only sell products farmed locally.

   • 1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:

     She became disrespectfully referred to locally as the "Crab" on account of her extraordinary manoeuvrability.

   • 2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “Temu’s pricing for U.S. consumers remains unchanged as the platform transitions to a local fulfillment model,” the company said in a statement. “All sales in the U.S. are now handled by locally based sellers, with orders fulfilled from within the country.”

3. (medicine) In a restricted part of the body.

   To be applied locally

   • 2015 July 25, “Anticancer Activity of Apaziquone in Oral Cancer Cells and Xenograft Model: Implications for Oral Cancer Therapy”, in PLOS ONE‎^[2], →DOI:

     Puri et al demonstrated that intravesically administered apaziquone is well tolerated locally and systemically, and it has ablative activity for superficial bladder cancer marker lesions.

4. (mathematics, mathematical analysis) Within a sufficiently small sphere (or circle or interval) around a given point (sometimes, around any point).

   locally Euclidean