Locality in a sentence as a noun

SSDs exhibit the same sort of cache locality RAM does.

Most people use real names on Github, or freely discuss their locality on Reddit...

Usually with QFT you start with locality and unitarity as a sort of starting point.

Can you use a better algorithm, more compact data structure, improve memory locality, or tighten the loop?

The Einstein quotes are rather apt. There was a famous disagreement between some well known physicists about what quantum entanglement meant for the principle of locality.

Amazon ran Target's online store for years, and collected locality-appropriate sales tax on those orders.

Meanwhile the new code has more non-locality: the eye of the reader must jump between the various function invocations and declarations.

But practical issues of bandwidth mean that there will always be a place for locality-exploiting concentrations of CPU and storage in data centres.

Most previous sim city's simulations were based on locality, there was a radius of effect around buildings and that modified properties.

Or this:[T]he new geometric approach to particle interactions removes locality and unitarity from its starting assumptions.

Careful choice of indexes, good data locality for fast reads, making sure writes are sequential - all that goes out the window if some other application is causing the disk to seek all over the place.

The many worlds interpretation resolves everything with full locality.

The issue I have there is that it's hard to solve the Adjective problem using "modern" OOP without injecting non-locality into code comprehension, and we learned a lesson about extreme non-locality with Goto.

Locality definitions

noun

a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

See also: vicinity neighborhood neighbourhood