Lou van den Dries,
Gromov-Hausdorff limits in euclidean and non-euclidean space.

Abstract:
The operation of taking Gromov-Hausdorff limits has an infinitary nature, but enjoys remarkable tameness properties when restricted to definable families of sets in "nice" spaces. These tameness results can easily be stated in standard geometric terms, but the only proofs known to me use model theory.

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