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The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.

, Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance. [Obs.] Near, and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought. Shak.

A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.

y a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module. Conjugate diameters. See under Conjugate.

The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets. [R.]

To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.] To ding the book a coit's distance from him. Milton.

g to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

cenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.…

A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.

To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.] Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. Spenser.

Distance. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak.

At a distance; remotely; with reserve.

Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

xact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.

The distance through which a current flows in a given time.