(obsolete) distance

far away; a long distance away

simple past tense and past participle of social distance

(algebraic geometry) Euclidean distance.

(geometry) The distance between two points defined as the square root of the sum of the squares of the differences between the corresponding coordinates of the points; for example, in two-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the Euclidean distance between two points a = (aₓ, a_y) and b = (bₓ, b_y) is defined as:

The distance from the effort on a lever to the fulcrum.

(US) Alternative letter-case form of Cartesian distance

Education obtained remotely, often involving written material together with audio-visual material transmitted via the internet and, sometimes, summer schools and local tutorials.

(astronomy) An estimate of the distance of a body based on its luminosity and the inverse square law.

Standard distance between individual plants placed in an ordered garden or field.