City-block distance

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CHM-002093",
  "term": "City-block distance",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "A metric used in chemometrics and other fields to quantify the distance between two points in a multidimensional space. It is calculated as the sum of the absolute differences of their coordinates along each dimension. This distance is also known as Manhattan distance or L1 distance.",
  "synonyms": [
    "Hamming distance",
    "Manhattan distance",
    "taxi distance"
  ],
  "subject": "Analytical Chemistry",
  "references": [
    "PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 427 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/city-block-distance/"
}