Typically refers to devices attached to the user's workstation, as opposed to remote devices that are accessed through a server.
Anything on your end of the wire. If you are using your computer to access a BBS, the hard disk on your computer is your local hard disk, and the hard disk on the BBS is the remote hard disk.
Hardwired connection of a computer to another computer, terminal, or peripheral device, such as in a local area network. Compare with: remote.
In close proximity to the computer. Compare remote.
A relative term, used as opposed to "remote." Local often refers to scrap originating in a nearby area. Remote would refer to material further away, from a freight rate point of view. Other parameters are often established, defining the local and remote areas by different means.
Refers to something that is on your computer, as opposed to on a server.
Pertaining to that which is defined and used only in one subdivision of a computer program. Contrast with global.
Refers to a resource attached to a user's computer. See also remote.
Use of the BBS at its physical location. Typically, the Sysop accesses the BBS software directly.
Computer hardware used by an end user on a computer network or the Internet to query a remote server. See also client.
Resources (such as files, hardware, and applications) that are stored on your own computer are called "local" resources.
A term that distinguishes LUs of a pair with respect to location. Local means residing at the LU from whose perspective an activity is described. See also remote.
(1) In programming languages, pertaining to the relationship between a language object and a block, such that the language object has a scope contained in that block. . (2) Pertaining to that which is defined and used only in one subdivision of a computer program. ANSI.
Generic term relating to anything residing on your computer's hard drive or floppy disk. You'll hear phrases like "it's on your local disk" or "you're viewing these webpages locally". These mean that the files (webpages, graphics, video, etc.) you're viewing aren't on a server or even probably on the Internet for that matter - they're just on your computer and you're the only one who can see them.
Refers to your computer, as opposed to "remote", which refers to the computer to which you connect for the purpose of downloading files.
In relation to websites this refers to the version of a website that resides on a 'local' computer within the company, office, web design studio, etc. See: Remote.
Refers to the computer or device that the user connects to the remote, host, or server. It can provide a frame of reference for transmission flows.
Pertaining to the computer you are now using.
Close at hand or restricted to a particular area. In communications, a local device is one that can be accessed directly rather than by means of a communications link. In information processing, a local operation is one performed by the computer at hand rather than by a remote computer. For example, the server computer on which Windows Media Services is installed is the local computer with respect to that server.
Indicates the same computer as the reference point.
A word used to describe a computer that is in the same (geographic) location as the person using it. The opposite concept is ‘ remote' computer somewhere else, to which a local machine is connected using a network.
Pertains to a device that is connected directly to the computer without using a WAN communication line.
(1.) Pertaining to a device, file, or system that is accessed directly from your system, without the use of a communications line. Contrast with remote. (2.) Pertaining to information that is defined and used only in one subdivision of a computer program.