Definition of Distances

1. Noun. (plural of distance) ¹

2. Verb. Third person singular simple present of ''to distance'' (oneself). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Distances

1. distance [v] - See also: distance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Distances

distally
distamycins
distance ceptor
distance education
distance formula
distance formulae
distance learning
distance of virtual image
distance perception
distance vector
distance vision
distanced
distancer
distancers
distances
distancing
distancingly
distancings
distancy
distannoxane
distannoxanes
distannyne
distant
distant flap
distantial
distantiate
distantly
distantness
distantnesses

Literary usage of Distances

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1830)
"On the Extension of Hade's Empirical Law of the Distances of the Planets from the Sun, to the Distances of tlie Satellites from their respective Primaries. ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The considerable variation of 0.5 À in the iron-iron distances observed in ... The Fe-Fe distances in the nitrogen-bridged complexes are the shortest ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"The stadia method of locating points is one in which distances are measured by ... If the rod is held at different distances from the telescope different ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The old map or sketch clearly showed this ; and the correspondences of distances and other evidence showed that the east line must have been actually ..."

5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Distances FROM LONDON BY AIR Л list of the distances In statute miles from London to various places abroad. Distances given are those of the ..."

6. A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest by Edward Herbert Bunbury (1883)
"ESTIMATED Distances. Sir H. Rawlinson observes in his able memoir on the site of ... Pliny has indeed preserved to us an itinerary of the distances from the ..."

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