The phrase "distance record" refers to the farthest or longest distance ever achieved in a particular activity or event. It highlights the person or thing that has gone the greatest distance compared to anyone or anything else. Full definition
Indeed, they found, pollen appeared routinely to travel as much as 14 kilometers, which the researchers claim is a new distance record for plants. (sciencemag.org)
The observation sets a new cosmic distance record and takes astronomers one step closer to the first galaxies of the universe. (ibtimes.com)
Physicists have «teleported» quantum information encoded on one photon to another photon across more than 100 kilometers of fiber - optic cable — breaking the previous quantum teleportation distance record by four times, The Washington Post reports. (sciencemag.org)