equidistant

[ ee-kwi-dis-tuhnt, ek-wi- ]

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adjective

equally distant.

Origin of equidistant

1560–70; <Middle French <Late Latin aequidistant- (stem of aequidistāns). See equi-, distant

Other words from equidistant

e·qui·dis·tant·ly, adverb

Words Nearby equidistant

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How to use equidistant in a sentence

Also, the boundary that separates two cells is equidistant from both their seeds.
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At one point, we all crawled to a central point equidistant from our respective holes.
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After work one quiet Sunday night I spotted “The World” on the shelf in the “Essays” section, equidistant from volumes by James Baldwin and Virginia Woolf.
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Meanwhile, respondents put Obama at 3.9 and Romney at 6.1—each of them equidistant (1.1 points) from the center.
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The Chester road enters the valley at a point about equidistant from either end.
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They are almost equidistant from each other, and the next to the lowest one is the longest.
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The windows of this apartment were two in number, and, equidistant from the doors, were considerably elevated above the floor.
Hardscrabble | John Richardson
Some Swastikas have three dots placed equidistant around each of the four ends (fig. 12c).
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Parallel lines are those equidistant one from the other throughout their length, as in Figure 42.
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British Dictionary definitions for equidistant

equidistant

/ (ˌiːkwɪˈdɪstənt) /

adjective

distant by equal amounts from two or more places

Derived forms of equidistant

equidistance, noun
equidistantly, adverb

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Scientific definitions for equidistant

equidistant

[ ē′kwĭ-dĭs′tənt ]

Equally distant.

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