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æquidistance

æquidistance is the obsolete form of equidistance.

Meaning of equidistance

Noun

equidistance (usually uncountable, plural equidistances)

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually) Equal 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

Forms of æquidistance

pluralæquidistances

Questions about æquidistance

What is æquidistance the obsolete form of?
Æquidistance is the obsolete form of equidistance.

Words near æquidistance in the dictionary

  1. æquators
  2. æqui-
  3. Æquian
  4. æquiangular
  5. Æquians
  6. æquidistance
  7. æquidistances
  8. æquidistant
  9. æquilateral
  10. æquilaterals
  11. æquilibria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æquidistance (page history and authors); equidistance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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