(astronomy) The small cluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way Galaxy; includes Andromeda, Triangulum, the Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud and others.

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

plural of chromosomal localization, referring to multiple localizations in the same karyotype