Phrase Hound found 91 phrases and 14 compound words that contain distance. The most common are listed below. Open distance in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 91
- long-distanceOver a great length or distance.
- distance learningEducation obtained remotely, often involving written material together with audio-visual material transmitted via the internet and, sometimes, summer schools and local tutorials.
- walking distanceA distance that a person can reasonably walk.
- Distance Between
- distance educationSynonym of distance learning: Education obtained remotely, often involving written material together with audio-visual material transmitted via the internet and, sometimes, summer schools and local tutorials.
- go the distanceTo participate in a boxing match for its maximum number of rounds.
- social distanceThe distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.
- short-distanceRelating to movement, travel, transport, or communication covering only a relatively small spatial extent.
- action at a distanceThe concept that an object can be affected, changed, moved, or otherwise affected without being physically touched by another object.
- middle-distanceDesignating a race of length greater than that of a sprint but less than several kilometres
- distance functiona function used to calculate the distance between two points.
- power distanceA measure of the willingness of individuals to accept the unequal distribution of power within a society or organization.
- edit distanceSynonym of string distance: Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of transformations that can change one into the other.
- going the distancepresent participle and gerund of go the distance
- thinking distanceThe distance travelled by a vehicle between the time that the need to brake is perceived, and the time that the brakes are applied
- string distanceAny of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of transformations that can change one into the other.
- down and distanceThe game situation described using the current scrimmage down and the yardage required to either the line to gain, or the goal line if no line to gain exists.
- stay the distanceSynonym of stay the course: To persist or continue, especially in the face of difficulties.
- distance linea rope used by scuba divers as a means of returning to a safe starting point in conditions of low visibility, water currents or where pilotage is difficult.
- time-distanceAn interval of spacetime.
- distance teachingSynonym of distance learning: Education obtained remotely, often involving written material together with audio-visual material transmitted via the internet and, sometimes, summer schools and local tutorials.
- braking distanceThe distance travelled by a vehicle between the time that the brakes are applied and the vehicle coming to rest
- self-distanceThe ability to critically reflect on oneself and one's relations from an external perspective.
- distance formulaAny algebraic expression that gives the distance between two points in a particular coordinate system in a particular number of dimensions
- spitting distanceA short distance.
Compound words 14
- distancelessWithout distance.
- biodistanceA measure of the biological relatedness of historical or prehistoric groups of humans
- interdistanceThe distance between a pair of (normally microscopic) things
- pseudodistanceA pseudometric having some characteristics of distance
- ultradistanceA very great distance.
- demidistanceThe distance between the outward polygons and the flank.
- ecodistanceThe difference in value of two related ecological variables
- isodistanceA variant of isochrone connecting places that are the same distance from a particular place
- microdistanceA very small distance
- multidistanceAn extension of the concept of distance between a pair of points in n-dimensional space.