taxidistance

See also: taxi distance and taxi-distance

English

Noun

taxidistance (countable and uncountable, plural taxidistances)

  1. (geometry) Alternative form of taxi distance (synonym of taxicab distance).
    • 1970 March, F. Papy, G. Papy, “Taximetry”, in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science, volume 1, number 4:
      Taxidistance is greater than Euclidean Distance.
    • 1992, Raffaella Borasi, Learning mathematics through inquiry, page 86:
      Although she was still ready to support her previous result—that her diamond represented all the points at the same taxidistance from the center point—she also began to realize that this figure did not satisfy many of the other properties of circles.
    • 1997, HRW geometry: explore, communicate, apply. Teaching transparencies directory, →ISBN:
      Help the students understand that there are multiple pathways between two points which have the minimum taxidistance.
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