Abstand — meaning in English
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English meaning
- displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
- distance noun The amount of space between two points or places.
- interval noun A gap or space between two points, whether in time, distance, or a sequence.
- pitch noun A persuasive presentation intended to sell or promote something.
- range noun The full span between the lowest and highest of something, such as values, prices, or distances.
Senses
Abstand is used for these senses in English:
- displacement (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- distance (military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.
- interval A distance in space.
- pitch The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- range (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
displacement — full definition
- noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
- noun In physics, how far and in what direction an object has moved from its starting point, measured as a straight line rather than along the path travelled.
- noun The volume or weight of fluid pushed aside by an object floating or immersed in it, used to state the size of a ship or the capacity of an engine.
- noun In psychology, the redirecting of a feeling from the person or thing that caused it onto a safer target.
distance — full definition
- noun The amount of space between two points or places.
- noun A lack of closeness or warmth between people; emotional separation.
- verb To keep oneself apart from someone or something, especially to avoid association with it.