Definition:Distance


 * Complex Analysis:
 * Distance between Complex Numbers


 * Metric spaces:
 * A distance function in a measure defining a metric space.
 * The distance between sets is the minimum distance between elements in two subsets of a metric space.


 * Geometry:
 * The distance between two points $A$ and $B$ is the length of a line segment joining $A$ and $B$.
 * The distance between two lines $L_1$ and $L_2$ in ordinary space is the length of the shortest line segment joining $L_1$ and $L_2$.
 * The angular distance between two points as measured from a common reference point.


 * Information theory:
 * The distance between two codewords of a given linear code is the number of corresponding terms which are different between those two codewords.


 * Graph theory:
 * The distance between two vertices of a given graph is the length of the shortest path between them.