IEC 60050 - International Electrotechnical Vocabulary


IEVref:	102-03-24	ID:
Language:	en	Status: Standard

Term:	Euclidean distance
Synonym1:	distance
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Definition:	for two points A and B in a Euclidean point space, magnitude of the vector $r_{B} - r_{A}$ , where $r_{A}$ and $r_{B}$ are the position vectors of the points A and B, respectively Note 1 to entry: In the usual geometrical three-dimensional space, the Euclidean distance is a quantity of the dimension length.
Publication date:	2008-08
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Internal notes:	2017-02-20: Editorial revisions in accordance with the information provided in C00019 (IEV 102) - evaluation. JGO
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