equidistant
equidistant
Definition
equi·dis·tant (ē′kwi dis′tənt)
adjective
equally distant
e′qui·dis′·tance noun
e′qui·dis′·tantly adverb
equidistant
Usage Examples
Preposition: from
- center: In 1888 Bramley was renamed Bramley and Wonersh as the station equidistant from the two village centers.
- point: The first two investigations involved finding the loci of points which equidistant from a point, then from a line.
- town: As a site equidistant from the four stannary towns, it would balance their competing claims for pre-eminence.
- source: Imagine standing at a point equidistant from both sources.
Modifies a noun
- sequence: Look back to the equation 1, in the section " Equidistant letter sequences " .
- point: Place five at equidistant points around an object or place, creating the outline of a pentagram.
- projection: The world is seen, from the direction of the Leonid radiant, in zenithal equidistant projection.
- neighbor: Each atom has 6 equidistant neighbors in its own plane at a distance a, and two sets of 3 above and below.
- line: The plot is a bar with equidistant lines that divides the bar into 10 units.
- interval: The phase 5 door in the south wall was blocked and three doors inserted at ground level at equidistant intervals.
Modifying Another Word
- roughly: Exercise 2 Place three pieces in a vertical row to the left of the left striking line roughly equidistant between the two left pockets.
- almost: On the left bank we noticed a pattern of towns set almost equidistant on the top of the valley.
- approximately: The cities of Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton and London are all approximately equidistant from Oxford.
- not: Neural impulses do not travel at the same speed, muscles are not equidistant from the brain, and much more.
- perfectly: Soon the balls in each track are perfectly equidistant.
Used with adjective complement
- locate: It is located equidistant from the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.
- situate: It comprises approximately 40ha, and is situated roughly equidistant between the three main Thanet towns.
- place: In Oban we stayed at Shearwater Inn which was nicely placed approximately equidistant between Golden Bay and Halfmoon Bay.
- remain: If multiple divers have been deployed and the divers become separated, the support vessel will remain equidistant from each.
- space: These are machined to a depth equal to half the specimen thickness and spaced equidistant from the specimen mid-length on opposing faces.
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