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Locality may refer to: Locality, a historical named location or place in Canada; Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England; Locality (linguistics) Locality (settlement) Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivision in rural areas of Australia
Locality can also be broken down into a morphological perspective, by analyzing words with some, or many affixes. A speaker who can make sense of a word with many morphemes (e.g. affixes) must know: how the morpheme is pronounced and what kind of morpheme it is, (free, prefix, suffix). If it is an affix, then the speaker also must know what the ...
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Settlements include hamlets, villages, towns and ...
An icon representing the concept of location. In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface.The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.
The word is cognate to English locality. The Italian National Institute of Statistics defines località abitata (lit. ' inhabited locality ') as an "area of more or less size, normally known by its own name, on which are situated either grouped or scattered houses". [citation needed] Three types of inhabited locality are distinguished:
The word Wangi has been translated variously as water, night owl or dark green tree so that Wangi Wangi would mean place of much water, many night owls or many dark green trees. Early settlers and fishermen used the word to mean peninsula and Point Wolstoncroft (in the locality of Gwandalan) was called "Little Wangi".
Type locality Location Notes Images Florissantia [2] Gen et sp nov jr synonym (pro part) Knowlton. Late Eocene. Florissant Formation United States Colorado. A mallow relative. Type species F. physalis, jr synonym of Florissantia speirii Florissantia speirii: Porana similis [2] Sp nov jr synonym Knowlton. Late Eocene. Florissant Formation United ...
The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. [1] Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. [2] This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage of suburb (municipality outside of a big city).