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chessboard distance

chessboard distance noun: synonym of Chebyshev distance.

Noun

chessboard distance (plural chessboard distances)

  1. Synonym of Chebyshev distance.

Synonyms of chessboard distance

Forms of chessboard distance

pluralchessboard distances

Origin of chessboard distance

So called because, in the game of chess, the minimum number of moves needed by a king to go from one square on a chessboard to another equals the Chebyshev distance between the centers of the squares, if the squares have side length one, as represented in 2-D spatial coordinates with axes aligned to the edges of the board.

Questions about chessboard distance

What does chessboard distance mean?
Chessboard distance means synonym of Chebyshev distance.
What part of speech is chessboard distance?
Chessboard distance is a noun.
What is the plural of chessboard distance?
The plural of chessboard distance is chessboard distances.

Words near chessboard distance in the dictionary

  1. chess-player
  2. chess-players
  3. Chess960
  4. chessaholic
  5. chessboard
  6. chessboard distance
  7. chessboard distances
  8. chessboardlike
  9. chessboards
  10. chessboxer
  11. chessboxers

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