Distance is a numerical description of how far apart objects are. In physics or everyday discussion, distance may refer to a physical length, or an estimation based on other criteria (e.g. "two counties over"). In mathematics, a distance function or metric is a generalization of the concept of physical distance. A metric is a function that behaves according to a specific set of rules, and provides a concrete way of describing what it means for elements of some space to be "close to" or "far away from" each other.

In most cases, "distance from A to B" is interchangeable with "distance between B and A".

Noun

distance f. (plural distances)

1. distance

Derived terms

• distancer

Distance is the quality of objects being physically separated from one another.

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• 1 Quotes
  • 1.1 Distance makes things more sweet
  • 1.2 Distant things appear better
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Quotes

• Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice; Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance.
  • William Wordsworth, Address to Kilchurn Castle.

• I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I've left the Past in God's keeping,—the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
  • Mary Gardiner Brainard, Not knowing, published in The Congregationalist, March 1869, and set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s. Thomas Corts, Glimpses of Christian History Presents More Stories: Blessed Bliss, 2007.

• By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
  • John Milton, The History of England, Book i.

• Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
  • Charles Lindbergh, as quoted in Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero (2002) by Von Hardesty

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Regional: Asia: India: Uttar Pradesh: Districts
The district of Chandauli is located in 24 56' to 25 35' north and 81 14' to 84 24' east at a distance of about 30 kms east-south-east of Varanasi.

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