MEAN DISTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mean distance mean? 

• MEAN DISTANCE (noun)
  The noun MEAN DISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary

  Familiarity information: MEAN DISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEAN DISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("mean distance" is a kind of...):

distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)

 Context examples 

A clustering method that determines the mean distance between all possible inter- or intra-cluster pairs.

(Average Linkage Cluster Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)