Lipschitz mapping

Lipschitz mapping

[′lip‚shits ‚map·iŋ] (mathematics) A function ƒ from a metric space to itself for which there is a positive constant K such that, for any two elements in the space, a and b, the distance between ƒ(a) and ƒ(b) is less than or equal to K times the distance between a and b.