The phrase "a distance equal to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a measurement or comparison of distances in various contexts, such as scientific, mathematical, or descriptive writing.
Example: "The two points are separated by a distance equal to five kilometers."
Alternatives: "a distance matching" or "a distance that is the same as".
They measure early 14ft (4.2m) long and travel a distance equal to 118 miles (190km) a year.
Usually this is 10 20 percent of the total voltage across a distance equal to the diameter of the magnetosphere.
The other two stationary points, called the triangular points, are located equidistant from the two finite masses at a distance equal to the finite mass separation.
It will whisk passengers across a distance equal to a trip between New York and Atlanta in less than five hours.
The Maldives are specks of dry land in the middle of the ocean, stretching over a distance equal to that from New York City to Raleigh; total landmass is less than twice the size of Washington's.
By finding two points at which the short circuit gives maximum absorption of the signal, it is possible to measure directly a distance equal to one-half of a wavelength.
The points of the curve that touch the straight line are separated along the line by a distance equal to 2πr, which is the circumference of the circle, indicating one complete revolution of the circle.
Ralph Lee, a celebrated knight-errant of the British road, who built his own vacation trailer in 1931 and went on to pull it and its 10 successors a distance equal to 20 trips around the world, died on Sept. 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Audio and Video content on Economist.com requires a browser that can handle iFrames.THE British House of Commons, the elected and more powerful of Parliament's two chambers, is laid out for adversarial politics: the opposing front benches are said to be separated by a distance equal to that of two drawn swords.
So an easy way of drawing a tangent to a parabola would be to simply join a given point on the parabola to the appropriate axial point that is a distance equal to the square of the point's x coordinate below the vertex.
