taxidistance

plural taxidistances

1. alternativecountableuncountablegeometryAlternative form of taxi distance (synonym of taxicab distance).

   Taxidistance is greater than Euclidean Distance.

   1970 March, F. Papy, G. Papy, “Taximetry”, in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science, volume 1, number 4

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   Although she was still ready to support her previous result—that her diamond represented all the points at the same taxidistance from the center point—she also began to realize that this figure did not satisfy many of the other properties of circles.

   1992, Raffaella Borasi, Learning mathematics through inquiry, page 86

   Help the students understand that there are multiple pathways between two points which have the minimum taxidistance.

   1997, HRW geometry: explore, communicate, apply. Teaching transparencies directory, →ISBN