different between distance vs apoapsis

English

Alternative forms

• distaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English distance, distaunce, destaunce, from Old French destance, from Latin distantia (“distance, remoteness, difference”), from dist?ns, present participle of dist? (“I stand apart, I am separate, distant, or different”), from di-, dis- (“apart”) + st? (“I stand”). Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”, literally “off-stand, off-stance”), German Abstand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s.t?ns/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?d?s.t?ns/

Noun

distance (countable and uncountable, plural distances)

1. (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.

   The distance to Petersborough is thirty miles.

   From Moscow, the distance is relatively short to Saint Petersburg, relatively long to Novosibirsk, but even greater to Vladivostok.
2. Length or interval of time.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Preface to a Collection of Poems

     ten years' distance between my writing the one and the other

   • 1795, John Playfair, Elements of Geometry

     the writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years

3. (countable, informal) The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.

4. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
   • 1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasure of Hope

     'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

   • [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.

5. Remoteness in succession or relation.

6. A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
7. (uncountable, figuratively) The entire amount of progress to an objective.

8. (uncountable, figuratively) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

     Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.
9. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.

   • 1706, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preached in the Guild-Hall Chapel, September 28 1706

     'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.

10. The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.

Synonyms

• (remoteness): farness

Derived terms

Related terms

• distant

Translations

Verb

distance (third-person singular simple present distances, present participle distancing, simple past and past participle distanced)

1. (transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.

   He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.

2. (transitive) To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 71:

     Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.

Derived terms

• outdistance

Translations

Further reading

• distance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• distance at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• danciest

Danish

Etymology

From French distance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /distan?s?/, [d?i?sd???s?]

Noun

distance c (singular definite distancen, plural indefinite distancer)

1. distance
2. detachment

Declension

Further reading

• “distance” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

From distanco +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis?tant?se/
• Hyphenation: dis?tan?ce
• Rhymes: -ant?se

Adverb

distance

1. To or at a great distance.

   rigardi pentra?on distance.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.t??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Etymology 1

From Latin distantia.

Noun

distance f (plural distances)

1. distance

Derived terms

Related terms

• distant

Etymology 2

Verb

distance

1. inflection of distancer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “distance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latvian

Noun

distance f (5 declension)

1. distance
2. interval
3. railway division

Declension

English

Etymology

apo- +? apsis

Noun

apoapsis (plural apoapsides)

1. (astronomy) The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.

Usage notes

For some celestial bodies, specialised terms are used.

Synonyms

• apocenter

Antonyms

• periapsis

Related terms

• apastron
• aphelion
• apoareion
• apocenter
• apocynthion
• apogalacticon
• apogee
• apohermion
• apojove
• apokrone, apokron
• apolune
• aponigricon
• aposaturnium
• aposelene

Translations

See also

• Apsis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??po?psis/, [??po???ps?is?]
• Rhymes: -?psis
• Syllabification: a?po?ap?sis

Noun

apoapsis

1. (astronomy) apoapsis

Declension