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Manhattan
40.7283°N -73.9942°W · Q11299
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Manhattan. It sits in United States.
Manhattannoun · 19th century
Well attestedThe cocktail is named for a New York island.
The drink is associated with the Manhattan Club in the 1870s. The island's name comes from Lenape.
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Manhattan distancenoun · 20th century
Well attestedA distance metric named for a street plan you cannot cut diagonally across.
It is also called taxicab geometry, because a cab in a gridded city drives the blocks rather than the straight line between two addresses. Manhattan's 1811 grid made the picture obvious, even though Broadway cuts across it at an angle.
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