Ultrametric

Origin

- + metric

Adjective

1. (mathematics) Describing a metric whose triangle inequality has the stronger form $d(x,\; z)\; \backslash le\; \backslash max\backslash \{d(x,\; y),\; d(y,\; z)\backslash \}$

Hypernyms

• metric

Hyponyms

• p-adic ultrametric