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<p>along dimensions such as <a href="page.php?w=social_class">social class</a>, <a href="page.php?w=Race_%28classification_of_human_beings%29">race</a>/<a href="page.php?w=ethnicity">ethnicity</a>, <a href="page.php?w=gender">gender</a> or <a href="page.php?w=human_sexuality">sexuality</a>.</p>

<p><big>Mathematical formalization</big></p>
<p>Most of the notions of distance between two points or objects described above are examples of the mathematical idea of a <a href="page.php?w=metric_space">metric</a>.  A metric or distance function is a <a href="page.php?w=function_%28mathematics%29">function</a></p><p>
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