Local Property
In mathematics, a phenomenon is sometimes said to occur locally if, roughly speaking, it occurs on sufficiently small or arbitrarily small neighborhoods of points.
Read more about Local Property: Properties of A Single Space, Properties of A Pair of Spaces, Properties of Infinite Groups, Properties of Finite Groups, Properties of Commutative Rings
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