hemimetric
Meanings
noun
- An abstraction of distance; a function, d, with two arguments that satisfies d(x,x) = 0 and d(x, y) + d(y,z) ≥ d(x,z) (the triangle inequality) for all x,y,z in the domain.
Word forms
Etymology
From hemi- + metric.
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