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hemimetric

hemimetric noun: 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.

Noun

hemimetric (plural hemimetrics)

  1. 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.
    • Without exploiting structural constraints of the hemimetric polytope, learning the distances between each pair of items requires #92;Theta(n²) queries.2016, Adish Singla, Sebastian Tschiatschek, Andreas Krause, “Actively Learning Hemimetrics with Applications to Eliciting User Preferences”, in arXiv

Forms of hemimetric

pluralhemimetrics

Origin of hemimetric

From hemi- + metric.

Questions about hemimetric

What does hemimetric mean?
Hemimetric means 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.
What part of speech is hemimetric?
Hemimetric is a noun.
What is the plural of hemimetric?
The plural of hemimetric is hemimetrics.

Words near hemimetric in the dictionary

  1. hemimetaboly
  2. hemimetameric
  3. hemimetamorphosis
  4. hemimethylated
  5. hemimethylation
  6. hemimetric
  7. hemimetrics
  8. hemimicelle
  9. hemimicelles
  10. hemimorphic
  11. hemimorphism

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