Understanding the Definition of Distance – What is a point?
To understand the definition of a distance, we need to first understand the definition of a point. Definition: Point A single location in two dimensional or three-dimensional space that has no width, length, or height. This definition is as about as abstract as you can get. Let’s see if we can make some more sense of it with further explanation and an illustration. Alternate Definition: Point A point is simply a way to represent or symbolize a single spot in a system that humans have designed to measure off or partition some space they are interested in. Points are used to symbolize all sorts of things on maps. We might use a point to represent the location of an automobile accident, or the confluence of two rivers. Typically the things we represent on maps with a point really do have a width, height, and length, but it is easier to treat them as if they don’t. For example, a city might stretch for miles over the surface of the Earth, and for hundreds of feet above and below the surfac
