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Metric

//ˈmɛt.ɹɪk// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the metric system of measurement. not-comparable

    "But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Of or relating to distance. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    the rhythmic arrangement of syllables wordnet
  2. 2
    based on the meter as a standard of measurement wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).

    "What metric should be used for performance evaluation?"

  2. 2
    a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic wordnet
  3. 3
    A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M×M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y)=d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.

    "As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function."

  4. 4
    a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds) wordnet
  5. 5
    A metric tensor.
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  1. 6
    a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them wordnet
  2. 7
    Abbreviation of metric system. abbreviation, alt-of
Verb
  1. 1
    To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process. transitive

    "We need to metric the status of software documentation."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.

Etymology 2

From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.

Etymology 3

From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.

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