Well attestedNamed from the place
Manhattan distance
noun · first attested 20th century
A distance metric named for a street plan you cannot cut diagonally across.
The distance between two points measured as the sum of the differences along each axis, as though travel were confined to a grid.
40.7283°N -73.9942°W · Q11299
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Manhattan distance
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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