"hemimetric" meaning in All languages combined

See hemimetric on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: hemimetrics [plural]
Etymology: From hemi- + metric. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|hemi|metric}} hemi- + metric Head templates: {{en-noun}} hemimetric (plural hemimetrics)
  1. (mathematics) 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. Categories (topical): Mathematics

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