Levenshtein distance
English
Etymology
From Levenshtein + distance, after the Russian mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein.
Noun
Levenshtein distance (plural Levenshtein distances)
- (computer science) The number of edits (replacements, deletions and insertions) required to change one string into another.
Translations
(computer science) the number of edits required to change one string into another
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