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id: Dissimilarity
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- Dissimilarity (or distance) measure
  - [Numerical measure](app://obsidian.md/Numeric) of how different two data
    objects are
  - **In some sense, the inverse of similarity**: The lower, the more alike
  - Minimum dissimilarity is often 0 (i.e., completely similar)
  - Range [0, 1] or [0, ], depending on the definition