nonexpansive mapping
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nonexpansive mapping
[‚nän·ik‚span·siv ′map·iŋ] (mathematics)
A function ƒ from a metric space to itself such that, for any two elements in the space, a and b, the distance between ƒ (a) and ƒ (b) is not greater than the distance between a and b.
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