Definition of distance

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Distance (n.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh..

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Odometry :: Odometry (n.) Measurement of distances by the odometer.
Gunshot :: Gunshot (n.) The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun..
Distance :: Distance (n.) Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events..
Sextile :: Sextile (a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity..
Wardian :: Wardian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman..
Call :: Call (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land..
Outhouse :: Outhouse (n.) A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.
Infinite :: Infinite (a.) Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance..
Heliotrope :: Heliotrope (n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror..
Outtravel :: Outtravel (v. t.) To exceed in speed o/ distance traveled.
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch..
Inequality :: Inequality (n.) The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc..
Esthesiometer :: Esthesiometer (n.) An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered..
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles..
Paracentrical :: Paracentrical (a.) Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center.
Perspective :: Perspective (a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects..
Step :: Step (a.) To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors..
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