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Nearest—Wolfram Language Documentation

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BUILT-IN SYMBOL

Nearest[{elem1,elem2,},x]

gives the list of elemi to which x is nearest.

Nearest[{elem1v1,elem2v2,},x]

gives the vi corresponding to the elemi to which x is nearest.

Nearest[{elem1,elem2,}{v1,v2,},x]

gives the same result.

Nearest[{elem1,elem2,}prop,x]

gives the property prop for the elemi to which x is nearest.

Nearest[data,{x1,x2,}]

effectively gives {Nearest[data,x1],Nearest[data,x2],}.

Nearest[data,x,n]

gives the n nearest elemi to x.

Nearest[data,x,{n,r}]

gives the n or fewer nearest elemi to x that are within radius r of x.

Details and Options Examplesopen allclose all Basic Examples  (5)

Find the element nearest to 20:

Find the 3 elements nearest to 20:

Find which element is nearest to {2,3} in 2D:

Find "nearest" strings:

Find nearest colors:

Find the nearest image partition to a subimage:

Scope  (9)

Give the 3 nearest elements:

Give the elements within radius 2:

Give at most 3 nearest elements within radius 2:

Find the nearest matrix:

Find which element is nearest to {2,3} in 2D and return the appropriate label:

Compute the same using an Association:

Return the index for the nearest string:

Return an Association giving the string element, index, and distance:

Find the 3 elements nearest to 20, simultaneously reporting the elements and their distance to 20:

For uniform random points in 3D, give the distances for the 10 nearest to the origin:

For each of the 10 nearest, give an Association including the point element, index and distance:

Create a lookup function for future use:

Find the date nearest to a given DateObject:

Find out which of these {lat,lon} points on Earth is closest to you:

Express the input as a list of separate GeoPosition objects instead:

Report simultaneously the closest point and the distance to it:

Options  (6) DistanceFunction  (3)

By default, normal Euclidean distance is used for points:

Use the ManhattanDistance, which sums the length of each side:

The ChessboardDistance only takes into account the dimension with the largest separation:

The DistanceFunction can be given as a symbol:

Or as a pure function:

Find nearest colors using a color distance different from the default distance in ColorDistance:

Method  (2)

Compare different methods for machine-precision data:

In three dimensions, the "KDtree" method is faster:

In 20 dimensions, a simple scan is faster:

The setting Method->{"KDtree","LeafSize"->s} may be used to control the maximum number of points in any leaf of the KD tree constructed:

Plot the tree setup time:

Plot the lookup time for different points:

WorkingPrecision  (1)

Using WorkingPrecision->MachinePrecision ensures the fastest evaluation method is used:

The results may not be correct if the numbers are not all distinct to machine precision:

All the points are effectively the same to machine precision:

An appropriate higher value of precision will work:

Applications  (8)

Plot the Nearest of a list of:

Create a Voronoi diagram:

Use higher resolution:

Use a 1-norm ("taxicab distance"):

Highlight the 200 random points closest to the origin:

Use the "taxicab" metric:

Create a nearest function from all the words in a dictionary:

Look up words closest to a given word:

Go farther:

Find the outputs from running a sequence of elementary cellular automata:

Generate a complete list of outputs from all 256 elementary cellular automata:

Find which rules give outputs nearest the specified sequences:

Use a negative distance function to find the element farthest away from the given element:

Show the returned element for all values between 1 and 5:

Take the polygon of Mexico:

Compute the nearest of the points of that polygon from your current geo location:

Draw the geodesic from your location to that point:

Properties & Relations  (2)

In the case of a tie, all nearest elements are returned in order:

The single argument form of Nearest returns a NearestFunction object:

This is an optimized lookup function, which is faster than calling Nearest repeatedly:

Neat Examples  (1)

Find successive nearest words in a dictionary:

Wolfram Research (2007), Nearest, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Nearest.html (updated 2017). Text

Wolfram Research (2007), Nearest, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Nearest.html (updated 2017).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2007. "Nearest." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2017. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Nearest.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2007). Nearest. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Nearest.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_nearest, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Nearest}", year="2017", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Nearest.html}", note=[Accessed: 11-July-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_nearest, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Nearest}, year={2017}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Nearest.html}, note=[Accessed: 11-July-2025 ]}


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