Description: A set X together with a (distance) function D which is a
pseudometric is adistance space (according to E. Deza, M.M. Deza:
"Dictionary of Distances", Elsevier, 2006), i.e. a (base) set X
equipped with adistanceD , which is a mapping of two elements of
the base set to the (extended) reals and which is nonnegative, symmetric
and equal to 0 if the two elements are equal. (Contributed by AV, 15-Oct-2021)(Revised by AV, 5-Jul-2022)