mean distance

1. 1.

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

   Broaderdistance

Questions about mean distance

What does mean distance mean?

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

Is mean distance a common word?

mean distance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.