3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
locality
n : a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the
vicinty of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he
always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
[syn: {vicinity}, {neighborhood}, {neighbourhood}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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.
(1995-02-28)
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