Any form of government whose remit covers an area less than that of the nation and, in some cases, less than that of a state.

(religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services in some religious denominations.

An administrative board operating in a local government; specifically:

plural of local board

plural of local time

(astronomy, cosmology) the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002

(astronomy) A relatively dense region of interstellar space (containing our Solar System) that formed where the Local Bubble met another bubble, the Loop I Bubble

plural of local anesthetic

(geology) The location, usually where the first specimen was discovered, considered most representative of a mineral, formation etc.

(British spelling) alternative spelling of local anesthetic