taxicab geometry

== English == === Etymology === From the distance travelled by a taxicab in a grid of streets that cross at right angles to each other. === Noun === taxicab geometry (uncountable) (geometry) A non-Euclidean geometry in which the distance between two points is the sum of the absolute differences between their corresponding coordinates. ==== Related terms ==== blockwise distance city block distance Manhattan distance taxicab distance, taxi distance taxicab metric ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === taxicab geometry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia