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From the online Oxford vocabulary we can read the following definition: [style] noun
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a particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way;
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a way of painting, writing, composing, building, etc., characteristic of a particular period, place, person, or movement;
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a way of using language;
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a distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed: a particular design of clothing.
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Specifically the distance satisfies the “triangular inequality”, which in essence states that if going from A to B one deviates passing through C, the path becomes longer.
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http://www.fondazionegramsci.org/ag edizione nazionale.htm
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...if You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll: AC/DC, from the album T.N.T.
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Benedetto, D., Caglioti, E., Degli Esposti, M. (2012). The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Human Sciences: The Attribution of Texts to Antonio Gramsci. In: Emmer, M. (eds) Imagine Math. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2427-4_14
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