metric
English 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
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
- contrametric
- extrametric
- intrametric
- metrical
- metrication
- metric carat
- metric-compatible
- metric conversion
- metric foot
- metric inch
- metricization
- 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
- nonmetric
- normometric
- premetric
- pseudometric
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.
- (mathematics) A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": , (3) "symmetry": , and (4) "triangle inequality": .
- 2000, Lutz Habermann, Riemannian Metrics of Constant Mass and Moduli Spaces of Conformal Structures[2]:
- 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.
Adjective edit
metric m or n (feminine singular metrică, masculine plural metrici, feminine and neuter plural metrice)
Declension edit
Declension of metric
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)