Local (English)
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Affecting only a small range of things. For instance we may talk about a function being locally linear if it is linear in a small part of its range.
A local minimum of a function is lower than other values in its immediate neighbourhood, but may not be the lowest value of the function across its whole range.
A local minimum of a function is lower than other values in its immediate neighbourhood, but may not be the lowest value of the function across its whole range.
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