etäisyyksien
Etäisyyksien is the genitive plural form of etäisyydet, the Finnish noun meaning distances or remoteness. It is used to indicate possession or relation to multiple distances, as in phrases describing measurements, comparisons, or characteristics of several distances. The grammatical form reflects Finnish noun inflection, where the nominative plural etäisyydet becomes etäisyyksien in the genitive plural.
In mathematics and geometry, distances quantify the length between two points in a space. Common notions include
In geography and cartography, distances can refer to straight-line (as-the-c crow flies) distance or travel distance
Use in Finnish text often involves noun phrases with genitive chaining, such as etäisyyksien mittaaminen (measuring