{
  "id": "local.spatial",
  "term": "local",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "local",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "in a place that is here",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "extent.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "the place together with a limited spatial extent defines a region that is here",
    "novel_properties": [
      "proximity to reference point",
      "bounded area"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The city of Venice maintains a local water table that submerges ground floors during acqua alta events.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider keeps superconducting magnets at a local temperature of 1.9 K for beam stability.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Farmers in Bali coordinate irrigation through local temples, sustaining subak water-sharing networks for centuries.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "extent.spatial",
      "note": "part-of",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "county.administrative",
    "download.digital",
    "invasive.system",
    "regional.spatial",
    "rich.abundant"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "local",
    "locally",
    "locals"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-local.spatial"
}