Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

triangle inequality

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English

Syllables: tri-an-gle inequal-i-ty
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The inequality that states that the magnitude of the sum of two vectors is less than or equal to the sum of the magnitudes of the vectors.

noun

The inequality that states that the distance between two points is less than or equal to the sum of the distances between the first two points and some third point.

noun

Either of the above two inequalities, considered as one of the axioms which a function must satisfy to be a norm or metric respectively.

Example Sentences

"‖ mathbf x+ mathbf y‖≤‖ mathbf x‖+‖ mathbf y‖"
"d(x,z)≤d(x,y)+d(y,z)"

Inflected Forms

triangle inequalities (plural)

Questions

What does triangle inequality mean?: The inequality that states that the magnitude of the sum of two vectors is less than or equal to the sum of the magnitudes of the vectors.

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