Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metric_function

1 sense of metric function

Sense 1
metric function, metric -- (a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them)
       => function, mathematical function, single-valued function, map, mapping -- ((mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function))