distance :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. a distant region; "I could see it in the distance"

n. a remote point in time; "if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"

Distance

n. [the state of being separated in space or time]

distance, space

n. the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes"

distance, length

n. size of the gap between two places; "the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"

distance, aloofness

n. indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance"

distance

v. keep at a distance; "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"

outdistance, outstrip, distance

v. go far ahead of; "He outdistanced the other runners"

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range, reach

n. the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire"

range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains

n. a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class

n. people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

group, grouping

n. any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

radical

n. (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity

opening, gap

n. an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"

col, gap

n. a pass between mountain peaks

horizon, apparent horizon, visible horizon, sensible horizon, skyline

n. the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

horizon

n. a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land

capacity

n. (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes"

while, piece, spell, patch

n. a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"

coolness, imperturbability, imperturbableness

n. calm and unruffled self-assurance; "he performed with all the coolness of a veteran"

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Closeness

n. [the state of being near in space or in time]

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