| Abstract from DBPedia | Distance is a numerical or occasionally qualitative measurement of how far apart objects or points are. In physics or everyday usage, distance may refer to a physical length or an estimation based on other criteria (e.g. "two counties over"). Since spatial cognition is a rich source of conceptual metaphors in human thought, the term is also frequently used metaphorically to mean a measurement of the amount of difference between two similar objects (such as statistical distance between probability distributions or edit distance between strings of text) or a degree of separation (as exemplified by distance between people in a social network). Most such notions of distance, both physical and metaphorical, are formalized in mathematics using the notion of a metric space. In the social sciences, distance can refer to a qualitative measurement of separation, such as social distance or psychological distance.距離（きょり、distance）とは、ある2点間に対して測定した長さの量をいう。本項では日常生活および高校数学の範囲内で使われている距離について触れる。大学以上で扱うより専門的・抽象的な距離については距離空間を参照。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Distance) |
