Phrase Hound found 44 phrases and 12 compound words that contain distances. The most common are listed below. Open distances in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 44
- lunar distancesplural of lunar distance: The angle between the Moon and another celestial body.
- draw distancesplural of draw distance: The maximum distance from the camera at which objects are rendered in a three-dimensional scene.
- edit distancesplural of edit 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.
- effort distancesplural of effort distance: The distance from the effort on a lever to the fulcrum.
- keyboard distancesplural of keyboard distance: The shortest path between two keys in a keyboard layout in terms of the number of intermediate keys.
- Manhattan distancesplural of Manhattan distance: Synonym of taxicab distance (“the distance between two points on a grid, where the only path allowed is along horizontal and vertical lines”).
- middle distancesplural of middle distance: Designating a race of length greater than that of a sprint but less than several kilometres
- power distancesplural of power distance: A measure of the willingness of individuals to accept the unequal distribution of power within a society or organization.
- resistance distancesplural of resistance distance: In classical mechanics, the distance from the resistance (on a lever) to the fulcrum.
- security distancesplural of security distance: The amount of space required between two vehicles on a roadway in order to maintain a safe following distance.
- self-distancesplural of self-distance: The ability to critically reflect on oneself and one's relations from an external perspective.
- social distancesplural of social distance: The distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.
- stopping distancesplural of stopping distance: The distance that is the sum of the thinking distance and the braking distance.
- striking distancesplural of striking distance: A distance at which a soldier, military force, vessel, etc. is sufficiently near to be able to attack an opponent.
- string distancesplural 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.
- taxi distancesplural of taxi distance: The distance that an airplane must taxi to reach the runway from the terminal.
- thinking distancesplural of thinking distance: The distance travelled by a vehicle between the time that the need to brake is perceived, and the time that the brakes are applied
- walking distancesplural of walking distance: A distance that a person can reasonably walk.
- socially distancesthird-person singular simple present indicative of socially distance: The distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.
- angular distancesplural of angular distance: The measure of the angle between the orientation of two straight lines, rays, or vectors in three-dimensional space.
- braking distancesplural of braking distance: The distance travelled by a vehicle between the time that the brakes are applied and the vehicle coming to rest
- perpendicular distancesplural of perpendicular distance: The distance between two objects measured along a line that is perpendicular to one or both.
- Hubble distancesplural of Hubble distance: A unit of distance in cosmology, defined as the speed of light multiplied by the Hubble time, and equivalent to 4,550 million parsecs or 14.4 billion light years.
- city block distancesplural of city block distance: The distance between two points on a grid, where the only path allowed is along horizontal and vertical lines.
- slant distancesplural of slant distance: The distance from one point to another in three-dimensional space.
Compound words 12
- pseudodistancesplural of pseudodistance: A pseudometric having some characteristics of distance
- biodistancesplural of biodistance: A measure of the biological relatedness of historical or prehistoric groups of humans
- demidistancesplural of demidistance: The distance between the outward polygons and the flank.
- ecodistancesplural of ecodistance: The difference in value of two related ecological variables
- equidistancesplural of equidistance: Equal distance.
- interdistancesplural of interdistance: The distance between a pair of (normally microscopic) things
- isodistancesplural of isodistance: A variant of isochrone connecting places that are the same distance from a particular place
- microdistancesplural of microdistance: A very small distance
- multidistancesplural of multidistance: An extension of the concept of distance between a pair of points in n-dimensional space.
- outdistancesthird-person singular simple present indicative of outdistance: To run farther or faster than another, or to finish a race with a large margin.