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E.g., '7 ft'.</div> </div> <!-- infoblock --> <!-- Show properties (if any) associated with term and its supertypes --> <!-- Properties block for term: Distance--> <!-- Identify if this term or one of its supertypes has any associated properties --> <table class="definition-table"> <thead> <tr><th>Property</th><th>Expected Type</th><th>Description</th></tr> </thead> <!-- Properties for Term: Distance--> <!-- Properties for Term: Quantity--> <!-- Properties for Term: Intangible--> <!-- Properties for Term: Thing--> <tr class="supertype"><th class="supertype-name" colspan="3">Properties from <a href="/Thing" class="core" title="Thing">Thing</a></th></tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/additionalType" class="core" title="additionalType">additionalType</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/Text" class="core" title="Text">Text</a> or <br/> <a href="/URL" class="core" title="URL">URL</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org <a href="https://schema.org/docs/styleguide.html">style guide</a>. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/alternateName" class="core" title="alternateName">alternateName</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/Text" class="core" title="Text">Text</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">An alias for the item. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/description" class="core" title="description">description</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/Text" class="core" title="Text">Text</a> or <br/> <a href="/TextObject" class="core" title="TextObject">TextObject</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">A description of the item. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/disambiguatingDescription" class="core" title="disambiguatingDescription">disambiguatingDescription</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/Text" class="core" title="Text">Text</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/identifier" class="core" title="identifier">identifier</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/PropertyValue" class="core" title="PropertyValue">PropertyValue</a> or <br/> <a href="/Text" class="core" title="Text">Text</a> or <br/> <a href="/URL" class="core" title="URL">URL</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of <a class="localLink" href="/Thing">Thing</a>, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See <a href="/docs/datamodel.html#identifierBg">background notes</a> for more details. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/image" class="core" title="image">image</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/ImageObject" class="core" title="ImageObject">ImageObject</a> or <br/> <a href="/URL" class="core" title="URL">URL</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">An image of the item. This can be a <a class="localLink" href="/URL">URL</a> or a fully described <a class="localLink" href="/ImageObject">ImageObject</a>. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/mainEntityOfPage" class="core" title="mainEntityOfPage">mainEntityOfPage</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/CreativeWork" class="core" title="CreativeWork">CreativeWork</a> or <br/> <a href="/URL" class="core" title="URL">URL</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See <a href="/docs/datamodel.html#mainEntityBackground">background notes</a> for details. <br/>Inverse property: <a href="/mainEntity" class="core" title="mainEntity">mainEntity</a> </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/name" class="core" title="name">name</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/Text" class="core" title="Text">Text</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">The name of the item. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/potentialAction" class="core" title="potentialAction">potentialAction</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/Action" class="core" title="Action">Action</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/sameAs" class="core" title="sameAs">sameAs</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/URL" class="core" title="URL">URL</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website. </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/subjectOf" class="core" title="subjectOf">subjectOf</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/CreativeWork" class="core" title="CreativeWork">CreativeWork</a> or <br/> <a href="/Event" class="core" title="Event">Event</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. <br/>Inverse property: <a href="/about" class="core" title="about">about</a> </td> </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"><code> <a href="/url" class="core" title="url">url</a></code></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/URL" class="core" title="URL">URL</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">URL of the item. </td> </tr> </table> <!-- List properties that have this term as an Expected type --> <br/><div id="incoming">Instances of <a href="/Distance" class="core" title="Distance">Distance</a> may appear as a value for the following properties</div> <table class="definition-table"> <thead><tr><th>Property</th><th>On Types</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead> <tr><th class="prop-nam"> <a href="/depth" class="core" title="depth">depth</a></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/OfferShippingDetails" class="core" title="OfferShippingDetails">OfferShippingDetails</a> or <br/> <a href="/Product" class="core" title="Product">Product</a> or <br/> <a href="/VisualArtwork" class="core" title="VisualArtwork">VisualArtwork</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">The depth of the item. </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"> <a href="/distance" class="core" title="distance">distance</a></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/ExerciseAction" class="core" title="ExerciseAction">ExerciseAction</a> or <br/> <a href="/TravelAction" class="core" title="TravelAction">TravelAction</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">The distance travelled, e.g. exercising or travelling. </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"> <a href="/flightDistance" class="core" title="flightDistance">flightDistance</a></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/Flight" class="core" title="Flight">Flight</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">The distance of the flight. </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"> <a href="/geoRadius" class="core" title="geoRadius">geoRadius</a></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/GeoCircle" class="core" title="GeoCircle">GeoCircle</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">Indicates the approximate radius of a GeoCircle (metres unless indicated otherwise via Distance notation). </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"> <a href="/height" class="core" title="height">height</a></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/MediaObject" class="core" title="MediaObject">MediaObject</a> or <br/> <a href="/OfferShippingDetails" class="core" title="OfferShippingDetails">OfferShippingDetails</a> or <br/> <a href="/Person" class="core" title="Person">Person</a> or <br/> <a href="/Product" class="core" title="Product">Product</a> or <br/> <a href="/VisualArtwork" class="core" title="VisualArtwork">VisualArtwork</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">The height of the item. </tr> <tr><th class="prop-nam"> <a href="/width" class="core" title="width">width</a></th> <td class="prop-ect"> <a href="/MediaObject" class="core" title="MediaObject">MediaObject</a> or <br/> <a href="/OfferShippingDetails" class="core" title="OfferShippingDetails">OfferShippingDetails</a> or <br/> <a href="/Product" class="core" title="Product">Product</a> or <br/> <a href="/VisualArtwork" class="core" title="VisualArtwork">VisualArtwork</a></td> <td class="prop-desc">The width of the item. </tr> </table> <!-- List subtypes/subproperties --> <!-- List subs (Subtypes/subproperties/enumeration members/etc.) for Term --> <!-- list supersedes and superseded references --> <!-- list source references and acknowledgements --> <!-- list examples --> <!-- Examples block for term: Distance--> </div> <!-- mainContent --> <!-- Footer start from PageFooter.j2 --> <div id="footer"> <p><a href="/docs/terms.html">Terms and conditions</a></p> <div id="versioninfo"> <span class="sep">•</span> Schema.org <span class="sep">•</span> V28.1 <span class="sep">|</span> 2024-11-22 </div> </div> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); 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