equidistant

adjective

equi·​dis·​tant ˌē-kwə-ˈdi-stənt How to pronounce equidistant (audio)
ˌe-
1
: equally distant
a location equidistant from two major cities
2
: representing map distances true to scale in all directions
equidistantly adverb

Examples of equidistant in a Sentence

Points on a circle are equidistant from its center. Montreal is roughly equidistant from New York, Boston, and Toronto.
Recent Examples on the Web Both are around 1,700-square-foot ranches with similar layouts, located in 20-year old developments equidistant to downtown St. Louis. Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023 Matho is originally from Grenoble, France, about equidistant from Lyon and Geneva, Switzerland. Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023 Zero drop running shoes are specifically designed to be minimalist (AKA, almost no cushioning) and equidistant to the ground from the heel and the forefoot. Madeline Howard, Women's Health, 1 Aug. 2023 It’s perched on a hill in a rural community of just under 100,000 people equidistant to Columbus, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023 Now, the camera does this through smart pixels, differently from a standard camera, where every pixel triggers information the same time at equidistant time intervals. IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2023 Previous research has shown that three of the galaxies are akin to pearls on a string, roughly equidistant from us in the plane of the sky. Sharmila Kuthunur, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2023 The university is about halfway between Washington and Annapolis and is roughly equidistant from Washington and Baltimore. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023 This severed communications between the distant spacecraft and NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), an array of three radio antenna complexes equidistant from each other, located near Canberra, Australia; Madrid, Spain; and Barstow, California. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French, from Late Latin aequidistant-, aequidistans, from Latin aequi- + distant-, distans, present participle of distare to stand apart — more at distant

First Known Use

1556, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of equidistant was in 1556

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“Equidistant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equidistant. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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equidistant

adjective
equi·​dis·​tant ˌē-kwə-ˈdis-tənt How to pronounce equidistant (audio)
ˌek-wə-
: equally distant
the two points are equidistant from the line

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