Meanings of true distance in English

Hanging from this hold can also help you gauge the true distance between the holds.

In his isolated, fixed position he could still deduce his true distance from the sun!

After all, the stakes for failing to work out the true distance between trees were high.

So then in lustful, that is, in darkened affections, is the true distance from Thy face.

Now, with plenty of space to ponder the true distance between them, Grace begins to reinvent herself.

Preparatory to the reduction of the apparent to the true distance, the four following corrections have been applied.

The true distance is greater than the "logged," because Columbus again omits part of his run.

The true distance being augmented by the circuitous route we adopted made it 2,150 miles.

Louth's form shot off in one direction, Wicklow's in the other, the final score hardly reflecting the true distance between the teams.

We now, of course, know that they were not exactly right, for the true distance of the sun is about 93 millions of miles.

Not exactly in circles but in spiral rings-ateach turn drawing closer and nearer, till the true distance is attained for casting the inflammatory shafts.

He did not "log" all the run made between these islands; in consequence the "log" falls short of the true distance, as it ought to.

"The stream bends and twists so it is difficult to judge the true distance."

It will be seen that here, as well as in the cases of Ghaznah, Samarkand, and Tibet, Benjamin altogether under-estimates the true distances.