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metric space  British Rail metric  Post office metric  Bounded metric  bounded metric space
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A set of points such that for every pair of points there is a nonnegative real number called their distance that is symmetric and satisfies the triangle inequality WordNet 3.0
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A set of points such that for every pair of points there is a nonnegative real number called their distance that is symmetric and satisfies the triangle inequality WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In mathematics, a metric space is a set together with a notion of distance between its elements, usually called points. Wikipedia
Any set on which a metric is defined, giving a distance between any two elements. Wiktionary
Space (mathematics). Wiktionary (translation)