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equidistant, a.|iːkwɪˈdɪstənt|
[a. Fr. équidistant, ad. late L. æquidistant-em, f. æqui- (see equi-) + distant-em standing apart, distant.]
1. Separated by an equal distance or equal distances. Also fig.
1593T. Fale Dialling 14 Draw the line H. I. equidistant from A. B. or K. L. 1613Donne Elegy Pr. Henry Poems (1650) 240 Quotidian things, and equidistant hence, Shut in, for man, in one circumference. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 293 They would be equidistant from that Tropick. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 590 The situation of this metropolis is..equi-distant from the northern and southern extremities of the Union. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. x. 178 My opinions..were almost equi-distant from all the three prominent parties. 1869Ouseley Counterp. xii. 54 The (4) parts should be kept..equidistant.
2. Always preserving the same distance (from another line, etc.); parallel.
1570Billingsley Euclid i. def. 35 Parallel or equidistant right lines. 1635N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. ix. 208 It is contained betwixt two equidistant circles. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 195 The back..hath several semicircular equidistant strakes down to the belly. 1805H. Repton Landsc. Gardening 88 The banks of a natural river are never equidistant. 1848W. Bartlett Egypt to Pal. xi. (1879) 240 I..found the two lines everywhere equidistant.
3. equidistant projection: a mode of mapping a sphere, where the ‘centre of projection’ is one reached by producing the diameter by a line equal to half the chord of a quadrant of the sphere.
1866Proctor Handbk. Stars 20 The equidistant projection. 1867Denison Astron. without Math. 13.
Hence equiˈdistantly adv., so as to be equidistant, at an equal distance. † equiˈdistantness, = equidistance.
1571Digges Pantom. i. Def. B iiij a, Two right lines..equedistantly placed. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. v. 188 The Liver..doth equidistantly communicate its activity unto either arme. 1859Todd Cycl. Anat. V. 598/2 These parts..when spread out equidistantly from each other. 1873Fergusson in Tristram Land of Moab 377 The heads of the arches spaced equidistantly with those on the flanks. 1736Bailey, Equidistantness, a being equidistant. |