Distance

(dis'tanz.) [From L. distans.] (Mus.) The space or interval which occurs between two notes of the scale. -(Mil.) The vacant space between detached bodies of troops. (Perspective.) The line of D. is a right line extending from the eye to the principal point or focus; the latter, or point of D. being a point in the horizontal line at a distance from the principal point corresponding to that of the eye from the same. [s. 292]