"string distance" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The string distance between 'here' and 'there' is 1 (insertion of a t)."
        }
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        "Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of transformations that can change one into the other."
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        "(computer science) Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of transformations that can change one into the other."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "Hamming distance"
        },
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          "word": "Levenshtein distance"
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        {
          "word": "edit distance"
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        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "science",
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          "text": "The string distance between 'here' and 'there' is 1 (insertion of a t)."
        }
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        "(computer science) Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of transformations that can change one into the other."
      ],
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