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metric
/ˈmɛtɹɪk/
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What does metric mean?
adjective
- Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
- Of or relating to measurement by meters or by metrics.
- Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Of or relating to distance.
noun
- A way to measure something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- Ellipsis of metric system.
- 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.
- A metric tensor.
verb
- To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmɛtɹɪk/
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Books were produced under Abbess Eadburh of Minster, a learned woman who corresponded with Boniface and taught the metric art.
They drafted many very useful measures, creating important colleges, establishing the metric system, &c.
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Ninth, no valuable time is lost in making reductions from common to metric units, or vice versa, either by ourselves or foreigners.
The Metric System is the one here employed.
I say twelve times, for in those days, because of our old duodecimal measures, it was the custom to count as far as the twelve times table, instead of the ten times of the metric system.