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kind: concept
name: Metrizable space
aliases: [metrisable-space]
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  - url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrizable_space
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  wikidata: Q1194053
  wikipedia: Metrizable space
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## Summary

A topological space is metrizable when its topology comes from some metric.
Metrization theorems give conditions on the topology alone that make a space metrizable.