How to Use equidistant in a Sentence
equidistant
adjective- Points on a circle are equidistant from its center.
- Montreal is roughly equidistant from New York, Boston, and Toronto.
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Bind the book by punching two equidistant holes along the left side of the pages and attach with the metal rings.
—Donna Erickson / Creative Parenting, Twin Cities, 13 May 2017
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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
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The area covered is roughly equidistant from New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
—Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
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Castelfalfi lies equidistant between the art cities of Florence and Siena, deep in the Tuscan countryside.
—Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 30 June 2022
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Marmosets do not have opposable thumbs and have thumbs that align with their fingers to make five equidistant digits.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
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The woodcuts are sui generis, in a mode that can seem, befuddlingly, equidistant from prints and paintings.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
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But Tucson is nearly equidistant from both cities anyway.
—Bruce Pascoe, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
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Lines at the few open businesses organize in equidistant intervals, with hashmarks taped on the ground every six feet.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2020
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Twist ends together and bend into two equidistant hanging loops.
—Womansday.com Staff, Woman's Day, 26 Mar. 2010
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Any spherical distribution is symmetrical, since any point on a sphere would be equidistant from the center of the sphere.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
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Città della Pieve is located in the center of Italy, roughly equidistant between Florence and Rome.
—Bradford Betz, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2021
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The quadrangular shape of the castle fits the stereotype of all castles having four equidistant walls with a single tower in each corner, but in fact this design has proved itself by standing through the centuries.
—New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
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Yin explains that the professor uses what's called an azimuthal equidistant map projection.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
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Yin explains that the professor uses what's called an azimuthal equidistant map projection.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
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Posad Pokrovske, which lies almost exactly equidistant between Mykolaiv and Kherson, is the last point under Ukrainian control.
—Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
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Much of this growth is attributable to a robust local housing market that benefits from being equidistant from New York City and Boston.
—courant.com, 9 July 2021
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On both ends of the ideological spectrum, many Italians harbor a desire to be equidistant from Washington and Moscow.
—Marcus Walker, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
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The naval air station at Sigonella in Sicily, where long-range surveillance aircraft are deployed, is almost exactly equidistant from Beirut and Gibraltar at opposite ends of the sea.
—Loren Thompson, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
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In addition, radiating equiangular lines would pass through the surface of a surrounding sphere at equidistant points.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
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Each subject comprising a choice was harnessed and placed in the corners of a triangular experimental arena at an equidistant distance from the focal male.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2016
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Under normal conditions, viewers see a reflection of the pleura as a series of equidistant horizontal lines, called A lines, throughout those organs.
—Lina Zeldovich, Scientific American, 11 June 2020
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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
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Since taking office in 2019, Bolsonaro has upended Brazil’s decades-old tradition of an equidistant foreign policy in favor of automatic alignment with the U.S. and its allies.
—Marc Champion, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
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Nearly equidistant from Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincinnati, Columbus has become a pilgrimage site for architect nerds.
—Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
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Go for a curved monitor for a surprisingly natural gaming feel that, unlike traditional designs, keeps all images equidistant from your eyes.
—Popular Science, 9 June 2020
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To calculate geographic centers, Dr. Rogerson uses the azimuthal equidistant projection, which accurately shows distances and angles from its center, at the expense of shape and size toward its edges.
—Steph Yin, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2017
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The university is about halfway between Washington and Annapolis and is roughly equidistant from Washington and Baltimore.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
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Otherwise the book is perfectly equidistant between riff and investigation.
—New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
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