string distance
English
Noun
string distance (plural string distances)Category:English lemmas#STRINGDISTANCECategory:English nouns#STRINGDISTANCECategory:English countable nouns#STRINGDISTANCECategory:English multiword terms#STRINGDISTANCECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STRINGDISTANCECategory:Pages with entries#STRING%20DISTANCECategory:Pages with 1 entry#STRING%20DISTANCE
- (computer scienceCategory:en:Computer science#STRINGDISTANCE) Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of transformations that can change one into the other.
- The string distance between 'here' and 'there' is 1 (insertion of a t).Category:English terms with usage examples#STRINGDISTANCE