pseudometric

C18222
concept

A pseudometric is a function that assigns a nonnegative real number as a "distance" between any two points in a set, satisfying all the axioms of a metric except that distinct points are allowed to have zero distance.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
pseudometric canonical 2
distance-like function 1
function in metric geometry 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: pseudometric
Generated description
A pseudometric is a function that assigns a nonnegative real number as a "distance" between any two points in a set, satisfying all the axioms of a metric except that distinct points are allowed to have zero distance.

Instances (4)

Instance Via concept surface
Carathéodory metric
Kobayashi metric
Lempert function on convex domains distance-like function
Busemann function function in metric geometry