distance
noun
uk
Meaning of distance in English
distance | American Dictionary
at/from a distance
Examples of distance
distance
Two intermediate points on the string were marked with tightly knotted thread and were used as points from which distances could be measured.
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The difference of the focal distances is a constant.
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The larger size of these nomads allows them to cover ground and move over longer distances than smaller animals.
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Common gene content between two organisms is proposed as a genomic estimation of distances between them.
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Molecular phylogenies of these collections of genes were constructed using neighbor-joining and maximum likelihood methods, extracting 24 sets of distances.
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Branch points located at long distances are also suboptimal.
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One can not be distanced from or emotionally neutral about issues of self-knowledge.
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In theory, and to some extent in practice, it does act as a means of distancing broadcasting from government.
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If distances to local rural district council schools are too great, they have to rely on whatever education is provided by the farmer.
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Only coal was moved long distances by canals, railways and roads.
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The reasons were the lack of available places and the long distances between home and school.
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As the terrace is the main viewing station, the abbey is looked down on, it is distanced or put in perspective.
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Vagrants, for example, were more mobile and travelled longer distances than other migrants.
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If, however, the distances vary, the resulting intersections will produce compartments and facets of all the possible combinations.
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Furthermore, we will build densely, but not in the between the building heights and their reciprocal distances form of high rises or so-called low density.
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Collocations with distance
distance
These are words often used in combination with distance.
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angular distance
A fault plane is assigned to a subset that produces a minimum angular distance with the fault.
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average distance
Transport costs to and from the practice for alternative treatment were not calculated since no data were available on the average distance to such practices.
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commuting distance
It appears that such a strategy aided recruitment, but it was often at the expense of "poaching" staff from neighbouring services within commuting distance.
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距離, 離れたところ, 距離（きょり）…
mesafe, uzaklık, uzak bir yer/nokta…
distance [feminine], distance, lointain…
distància…
afstand, verte…
مَسافة, بُعْد, بُقْعة بَعيدة…
vzdálenost, dálka…
distance, afstand, i det fjerne…
jarak, kejauhan…
ระยะห่าง, จุดหรือบริเวณที่อยู่ไกล…
khoảng cách, khoảng cách xa…
odległość, dal, ≈ w/z oddali…
jarak, kejauhan…
die Entfernung, entfernt…
distanse [masculine], avstand [masculine], det fjerne [neuter]…
거리, 먼 곳…
відстань, дистанція, віддаль…
distanza, lontananza…
расстояние, даль…
