About Metric Voodoo
–adjective
| 1. | pertaining to distance: metric geometry. |
| 2. | metrical. |
–noun
| 3. | Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point. |
voo·doo 
Audio Help [voo-doo] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -doos, adjective, verb, -dooed, -doo·ing.
Audio Help [voo-doo] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -doos, adjective, verb, -dooed, -doo·ing. –noun
| 1. | Also, vodun. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion. |
| 2. | a person who practices this religion. |
| 3. | a fetish or other object of voodoo worship. |
| 4. | a group of magical and ecstatic rites associated with voodoo. |
| 5. | (not in technical use) black magic; sorcery. |
–adjective
| 6. | of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo. |
| 7. | Informal: Usually Disparaging. characterized by deceptively simple, almost magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo politics. |
–verb (used with object)
| 8. | to affect by voodoo sorcery. |
[Origin: 1810–20, Americanism; < LaF, earlier vandoux, vandoo < a West African source perh. akin to Ewe vodũ demon]
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