Lunar distance (884 bytes)
1: ... is measured using a [[sextant]]. Using the lunar distance and a [[nautical almanac]] it is possible to calc...
3: ...nd [[retroreflector]]s placed on the Moon. (See [[Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment]]).

Distance (5417 bytes)
1: :For distance between people, see [[proxemics]].
3: ==Distance between two points==
5: ...er it, for example walking or by car. Sometimes a distance thus indicated is ambiguous because the means of ...
7: ...case of one-way streets, and also in the case the distance is expressed in terms of the time to cover it (a ...
9: ...distance can not be [[negative number|negative]]. Distance is a [[scalar]] quantity, containing only a [[ma...

Going the Distance (1101 bytes)
1: '''''Going the Distance''''' is a [[2004]] [[Canada|Canadian]] [[teen fil...
23: * [http://www.goingthedistancethemovie.com Official website]
24: *{{imdb title|id=0388285|title=Going the Distance}}

The Distance to Here (616 bytes)
1: [[Image:livedistance.jpg|right|Album cover]]
3: '''''The Distance to Here''''' was [[Live]]'s extremely popular [[1...
7: #"The Distance"

The Distance (4408 bytes)
2: ...an="3" bgcolor="orange" style="color:black"|''The Distance''
4: ...lign="center" colspan="3"|[[Image:Bob Seger - The Distance.jpg|225px|Album cover]]
35: |''The Distance''<br>([[1982]])
38: '''''The Distance''''' is an [[album]] by [[United States|American]...
152: [[Category:Bob Seger albums|Distance, The]]

Distance education (4939 bytes)
1: ... on specific weekends, for example to take exams. Distance education is offered at all levels, but is most f...
5: ... been offering DE courses since 1946. The largest distance education university in the [[United Kingdom | UK...
7: Distance education is a newer term for [[correspondence co...
9: ...ions offering courses and degree programs through distance education. Students seeking degrees online from ...
11: ==Major institutions offering distance learning programs==

Comoving distance (8470 bytes)
1: ...ly the comoving distance is equal to the ordinary distance.
17: ''Comoving distance'' is then the distance in comoving coordinates between two points in spa...
25: ...oks use the symbol <math>\chi</math> for comoving distance.
27: .....W&db_key=AST&high=3ece3b4cfd08957] for comoving distance.
29: ==Is comoving distance a meaningless concept?==

Distance fog (1153 bytes)
1: ...to enhance the [[depth perception|perception]] of distance.
5: ...cessing power wasn't enough to render far viewing distances, and [[Clipping#Computer graphics|clipping]] was...

Social distance (1226 bytes)
1: ... groups of society and is opposed to ''locational distance''. The notion includes all differences such as [[...
3: ...n implied that the difference is restriced to the distance from the dominant ''city élite''. The social peri...
7: ... their own peripheries." This reference to social distance is especially true for [[city#global_cities|globa...

Distance geometry (1996 bytes)
1: '''Distance Geometry''' is the characterization and study of ...
2: based ''only'' on given values of the [[distance]] between member pairs.
3: ...e distance geometry has immediate relevance where distance values are determined or considered, such as in [...

Action at a distance (311 bytes)
1: ...ich are separated in [[space]]. See [[action at a distance (physics)]].
2: ...ance''' is an [[anti-pattern]]. See [[action at a distance (computer science)]].

Displacement (distance) (1119 bytes)
1: ...ne of two subtly different quantities measuring [[distance]].
3: ...cement.png|thumb|336px|Displacement compared with distance along a path]]
5: ...sses only the length). The [[SI]] unit for either distance or displacement is the [[metre]].
7: ...(spatial)|vector]] quantity which expresses the [[distance]] (in a straight line) between the starting and f...

Distance (movie) (1321 bytes)
1: '''''Distance''''' is a [[2001]] [[film|movie]] by [[Japanese p...

Walking Distance (3847 bytes)
2: '''''Walking Distance''''' is an episode of the [[television series]] '...
36: ...ules." ''[[Paul Mandell]], excerpt from "'Walking Distance' from The Twilight Zone", first published in the ...

Mahalanobis distance (1535 bytes)
1: ...t]] to a known one. It differs from [[Euclidean]] distance in that it takes into account the correlations of...
3: Formally, the Mahalanobis distance from a group of values with mean <math>\mu = ( \m...
8: Mahalanobis distance can also be defined as dissimilarity measure betw...
15: ...iagonal, then it is called ''normalized Euclidean distance'':

Levenshtein distance (8185 bytes)
1: ...ist [[Vladimir Levenshtein]], who considered this distance in 1965. It is useful in applications that need t...
3: For example, the Levenshtein distance between "kitten" and "sitting" is 3, since these ...
9: ...e also further generalizations of the Levenshtein distance that consider, for example, exchanging two charac...
13: ... length ''lenStr2'', and computes the Levenshtein distance between them:
15: '''int''' LevenshteinDistance ( '''char''' str1[ 1..lenStr1 ], '''char''' str2[...

Skip distance (143 bytes)
1: A '''skip distance''' is the distance a [[radio wave]] travels, usually including a hop...

Distance line (775 bytes)
1: A '''distance line''' is an item of [[diving equipment]] used b...
3: [[image:Distance_line.JPG|thumb|right|50 metres of line on a reel]...
4: Distance lines are often wound on to a spool or a [[reel]]...

Unicity distance (2585 bytes)
1: '''Unicity distance''' is a term used in [[cryptography]] referring t...
11: ...r of spurious keys is zero. This L is the unicity distance.

Astronomical distance (2751 bytes)
1: ...magination and boggle the mind. For instance, the distance to the nearest star besides the sun ([[Proxima Ce...
5: ...istances to comparatively small time periods. The distance to an astronomical body is often, therefore, refe...
7: ...mall a unit, the furthest known galaxies are at a distance of about 13,000,000,000 light years.
13: ==Measuring distances==
15: ...entually applied to stars (see [[parallax]]). The distances to nearby stars so determined were recently radi...

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