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Lipschitz (most readers, including probably most mathematicians, won't know what this means, so a link or reference should be included). Unfortunately, I don't have a reference at hand. Given the brevity of this article, links would be more appropriate than proofs. The only counterexample I have seen (where no finite modulus of continuity exists for a uniformly continuous function) involved a noncompact domain, so it is conceivable to me that if the domain is compact, then any uniformly continuous function admits a finite modulus of continuity. In this case, I don't know this for sure. There may be an easy, elementary proof (I haven't tried). Any mention of compactness should be backed up with a definite statement with an accompanying reference, or omitted.
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Remarks section that you quoted serves as introduction to the following section, where everything is explained in detail. Yes, if the domain of a uniformly continuous map is convex there is a real-valued module of continuity for it, indeed even concave (read the article). "A metric space whose metric is Lipschitz" makes no or little sense (every metric is 1-Lipschitz wrto itself; what is a non-Lipschitz metric then?). It is obvious that a continuous function on a compact metric space has a bounded modulus of continuity (as explained; read the article). In conclusion, I think most readers may be happy with the introductory part, while curious or interested readers can find any explanations in the subsequent sections. (Of course, these readers are supposed to have a minimal knowledge of the English language, in particular, mathematical terms such as "convex", "compact", "function"; there is no need of a reference of these terms although we may link them with other articles; yet it does not seem the case)
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