Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stay the distance

simple past tense and past participle of stay the distance

present participle of stay the distance

(navigation) The angle between the Moon and another celestial body. / (astronomy) A measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

(fine art) That part of a picture between the foreground and the background; the middle distance.

(probability, statistics) A measure used to quantify the similarity between two probability distributions.

Synonym of Hellinger distance

plural of distance function

(mathematics) a function used to calculate the distance between two points. / (topology) a metric.

(information theory) Given two strings of equal length, the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols differ; it therefore indicates the minimum number of substitutions required to change one string into the other.