taxi-distances

Noun

taxi-distance (countable and uncountable, plural taxi-distances)

1. A distance for which it is affordable and reasonable to take a taxi.
   • If you do your boating in the Long Island Sound area, we suggest you try a similar day's outing; if your cruising grounds are elsewhere, check the activities offered within (say) taxi-distance of various landings along your waterways, and make an especially exciting day or weekend of it.1962 May, Mark Penzer, “A midsummer-Day's Cruise”, in MotorBoating, volume 109, number 5, page 51
2. The distance that an airplane must taxi to reach the runway from the terminal.
   • Average taxi-distance for 'Baseline' and 'Optimized' plan (route-and-schedule model) for 1.0x traffic level For 1.0x case as shown in Figure 4, and Figure 5, for the baseline plan total taxi-time and average taxi-distance is 646.6 minutes and 3149.6 feet respectively.2010 September, Terry Thompson, Babak Khorrami, Vivek Kumar, Lance Sherry, “Surface and Terminal Planning with Explicit Consideration of Environmental Objectives Encompassing Sustainability in...
3. Synonym of taxicab distance.
   • Draw a graph of all points in the plane whose taxi-distance from (0, 0) is 1. Do the same for all points whose taxi-distance from (0, 0) is 2, and again for a taxi-distance of 4.1998, Arthur F. Coxford, Contemporary Mathematics in Context: A Unified Approach, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   taxicab distance