metric function

1. 1.

   a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

   Synonymsmetric

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Questions about metric function

What does metric function mean?

metric function means "a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them".

What is another word for metric function?

Close synonyms include metric. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metric function a common word?

metric function is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.