equidistant
pronunciation
How to pronounce equidistant in British English:
UK [ˌi:kwɪˈdɪstənt]
How to pronounce equidistant in American English:
US [ˌikwɪˈdɪstənt, ˌɛkwɪ-]
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- Adjective:
- the same distance apart at every point
Word Origin
- equidistant (adj.)
- 1560s, from French équidistant (14c.), from Late Latin aequidistantem (nominative aequidistans), from aequi- (see equal (adj.)) + distans (see distant). In reference to a type of map projection, from 1866. Related: Equidistance.
Example
- 1. London is roughly equidistant from oxford and cambridge .
- 2. Equidistant letter sequences in the book of genesis .
- 3. When two eezs collide , unclos calls for an equidistant line between the coasts , splitting the shared gulf or strait down the middle .
- 4. Research on theoretical roughness of equidistant out-profile by orthogonal turn-milling .
- 5. Article 6 in the event that the territorial sea of the republic of china overlap with the territorial sea of adjacent or opposite countries , the delimitation shall be the equidistant median line . Where there is an agreement , such agreement shall govern .