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taxicab geometry en · NOUN

Etymology

From the distance travelled by a taxicab in a grid of streets that cross at right angles to each other.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A non-Euclidean geometry in which the distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences between their corresponding coordinates.

Relateds

blockwise distance · taxicab metric · taxi distance · city block distance · taxicab distance · Manhattan distance

Translations (2)

sv manhattangeometri (non-Euclidean geometry in which distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences between their corresponding coordinates) · fi taksigeometria (non-Euclidean geometry in which distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences between their corresponding coordinates)