Distance learning or distance education involves studying at home and sending your work to a college or university, rather than attending the college or university in person.

The distance between two points or places is the amount of space between them.

When two things are very far apart, you talk about the distance between them.

When you want to emphasize that two people or things do not have a close relationship or are not the same, you can refer to the distance between them.

Distance is coolness or unfriendliness in the way that someone behaves towards you.

If you can see something in the distance, you can see it, far away from you.

If you are at a distance from something, or if you see it or remember it from a distance, you are a long way away from it in space or time.

If you keep your distance from someone or something or keep them at a distance, you do not become involved with them.

If you distance yourself from a person or thing, or if something distances you from them, you feel less friendly or positive toward them, or become less involved with them.