Meanings
nounequidistance (usually uncountable, plural equidistances)
plural equidistances · alternative archaic æquidistance
- countableuncountableusuallyEqual distance.
The men are ranged so as to form three sides of a square, and stand three deep, each prisoner being three yards from his fellow. This equidistance gives them the appearance of chess-men set out on a board.
1862, Henry Mayhew, John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life, page 308
Origin
- Proto-Italic*aikʷos?
- Old Latinaiquos
- Latinaequus
- Latinaequi-
- Englishequi-
- Englishdistance
- Englishequidistance
Translations
Spanish equidistancia
- equidistanciaTranslations
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