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

1 sense of metric space

Sense 1
metric space -- (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)
       => mathematical space, topological space -- ((mathematics) any set of points that satisfy a set of postulates of some kind; "assume that the topological space is finite dimensional")