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Some immediate generalizations of the notion of metric, for example, quasi-metric, near-metric, extended metric, were defined in Chap. 1 Here we give some generalizations in the direction of Topology, Probability, Algebra, etc.
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Deza, M.M., Deza, E. (2016). Generalizations of Metric Spaces. In: Encyclopedia of Distances. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52844-0_3
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