(1) Pertaining to a device, file, or system that is accessed directly from a user's system, without the use of a communication line. See also remote.
(2) In OSI, pertaining to the node from which one views the rest of the network.
(3) Pertaining to information that is defined and used only in one subdivision of a computer program. See also global.
(4) In programming languages, pertaining to the relationship between a language object and a block such that the language object has a scope contained in that block.
(5) Pertaining to an element that is available only in its own process. See also global.