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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛtɹɪk
- Hyphenation: met‧ric
Adjective
[edit]metric (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
- (music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
- (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to distance.
Derived terms
[edit]- antimetric
- bimetric
- centimetric
- chemometric
- clinicometric
- contrametric
- eumetric
- extrametric
- hemimetric
- heterometric
- hypermetric
- hypometric
- intrametric
- macrometric
- metrical
- metricate
- metrication
- metric carat
- metric compatibility
- metric-compatible
- metric conversion
- metric foot
- metric inch
- metricise
- metricism
- metricist
- metricity
- metricization
- metricize
- metric level
- metric martyr
- metric mile
- metric ounce
- metric-ounce
- metric pound
- metric prefix
- metric shitload
- metric space
- metric structure
- metric system
- metric time
- metric ton
- metrification
- monometric
- multimetric
- nonmetric
- normometric
- plurimetric
- polymetric
- premetric
- pseudometric
- psychometric
- tetrametric
- unimetric
Translations
[edit]relating to metric system
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relating to musical meter
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Noun
[edit]metric (plural metrics)
- 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?
- What are the most important metrics to track for your business?
- It's the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance.
- How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.
- There is a lack of standard metrics.
- 2011 April 10, Financial Times:
- As for the large number of official statements that Spain is safe, I think they are merely a metric of the complacency that has characterised the European crisis from the start.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist[1], volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, , page 106:
- The insight underlying such wordlists is that frequency, combined with metrics such as range and dispersion, profiles for teachers and students the relative usefulness of words.
- 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation[2], archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
- Ibanez had seen things with worse implications for herself, personally. That was the only metric of horror on which this sight knew remote equal. It was a wall, in a basic sense. It stretched from one side of the tunnel to the other, floor to ceiling, barring further passage. It was pink. It bubbled inside, and it sounded like a hundred simultaneous cases of indigestion which echoed off the rock around it.
- (mathematical analysis) 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 on , where is a set, is called a metric if (1) if and only if , (2) for all pairs , and (3) obeys the triangle inequality.
- 2000, Lutz Habermann, Riemannian Metrics of Constant Mass and Moduli Spaces of Conformal Structures[3]:
- As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function.
- (mathematics) A metric tensor.
- Abbreviation of metric system.
Synonyms
[edit]- measure
- (mathematics): distance function
Hyponyms
[edit]- (mathematics): Euclidean metric, Hausdorff metric, spacetime metric, uniform metric, ultrametric
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]measure for something
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notion in mathematics
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Verb
[edit]metric (third-person singular simple present metrics, present participle metricking, simple past and past participle metricked)
- (transitive, aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
- We need to metric the status of software documentation.
- We need to metric the verification of requirements.
- We need to metric the system failures.
- The project manager is metricking the closure of the action items.
- Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “metric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “metric”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Burago, Dimitri, Burago, Yuri, Ivanov, Sergei (2001) A Course in Metric Geometry, American Mathematical Soc., →ISBN, page 1
Friulian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]metric
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French métrique. By surface analysis, metru + -ic.
Adjective
[edit]metric m or n (feminine singular metrică, masculine plural metrici, feminine and neuter plural metrice)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | metric | metrică | metrici | metrice | |||
definite | metricul | metrica | metricii | metricele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | metric | metrice | metrici | metrice | |||
definite | metricului | metricei | metricilor | metricelor |
Further reading
[edit]- metric in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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