Local

Local may refer to:

Geography and transportation

 * Local (train), 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), a limited series comic book by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly
 * Local (novel), a 2001 novel by Jaideep Varma
 * Local TV LLC, an American television broadcasting company
 * 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), 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

Other uses

 * Local theory, a physical theory that obeys the principle of locality
 * Pub, a drinking establishment, known as a "local" to its regulars
 * Local language