[a. Fr. équidistance, f. équidistant: see next.] The fact of being equidistant. Also in phrase At equidistance = at equal distances.
1629. Lightfoot, Erubhin, 11 (T.). From the æquidistance of the letters and vowell, they gather the distinction of the Persons.
1649. Bp. Hall, Cases Consc. (1650), 334. The collaterall equidistance of cousens german from the stock whence both descend.
a. 1721. Keill, trans. Maupertuis’ Diss. (1734), 35. The gravity of Bodies … at equidistance from the Center of the Earth, is as their quantities of Matter.
1873. Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 417. There lie, out-spread at equidistance, thorpes And villages and towns along the coast.
