Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of distance is as below...

Moon :: Moon (n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month..

Longimetry :: Longimetry (n.) The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths.

Sextile :: Sextile (a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country..

Remote :: Remote (superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands..

Trailer :: Trailer (n.) A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant..

Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..

Run :: Run (n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes..

Behind :: Behind (a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death..

Great :: Great (superl.) Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length..

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..

Navigation :: Navigation (n.) the science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy..

Elongation :: Elongation (n.) Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.

Distance :: Distance (n.) The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place..

Stadia :: Stadimeter (n.) A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances..

Springtide :: Springtail (n.) Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura..

Interocular :: Interocular (a.) Between, or within, the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennae of some insects..

Insulated :: Insulated (p. a.) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; -- said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off..

Random Fonts

Most Popular