Távolságot

Távolságot is the accusative singular form of távolság, a Hungarian noun meaning distance. It denotes the extent of space between two points, objects, or moments in time, and can be used literally or figuratively. In everyday language, távolságot appears as the direct object in sentences: Megmértem a távolságot; Két pont közötti távolságot mérünk. The term also occurs in phrases describing emotional or metaphorical distance, such as érzelmi távolság.

Etymology and grammar: The word távolság derives from távol, "far", with the abstract-noun suffix -ság, forming a noun that denotes the state or extent of being far. Távolságot, as the accusative singular, is used when distance is the object of an action or description; the nominative is távolság, the plural távolságok. The word participates in compound terms such as távolságmérő ("distance meter") or közlekedési távolság ("safe following distance").

In mathematics and science, distance is a quantitative measure of separation between entities. In a metric space, distance is given by a distance function or metric d, which is nonnegative, symmetric, satisfies the identity of indiscernibles, and obeys the triangle inequality. In Euclidean geometry, the distance between two points x and y in n-dimensional space is the square root of the sum of squared coordinate differences: sqrt(sum_i (xi − yi)^2). Distance concepts are foundational in physics, navigation, geography, and computer science, and are used both in literal measurement and in abstract contexts such as data analysis or linguistics.