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uniformly continuous

Adjective

Meaning

uniformly continuous (not comparable)

(mathematical analysis, of a function from a metric space X to a metric space Y) That for every real ε > 0 there exists a real δ > 0 such that for all pairs of points x and y in X for which




D

X


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x
,
y
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<
δ


{\displaystyle D_{X}(x,y)<\delta }

, it must be the case that




D

Y


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f
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,
f
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y
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)
<
ϵ


{\displaystyle D_{Y}(f(x),f(y))<\epsilon }

(where DX and DY are the metrics of X and Y, respectively).
A uniformly continuous function is a function whose derivative is bounded.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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