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English [edit]

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Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/, X-SAMPA: /"mEt.r\Ik/
  • Hyphenation: met‧ric

Etymology [edit]

From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (pertaining to the system based on the meter), from metrum (a meter); see meter.

Adjective [edit]

metric (not comparable)

  1. of or relating to the metric system of measurement
  2. (music) of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
  3. (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to distance

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Noun [edit]

metric (plural metrics)

  1. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in Software Engineering)
    • 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. Financial Times, April 10, 2011
  2. (mathematics) A 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) "positive definiteness":  d(x,y) \ge 0 and  d(x,y) = 0 \mbox{ iff } x=y , (2) "symmetry":  d(x,y) = d(y,x) , and (3) "triangle inequality":  d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y) .

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Verb [edit]

metric (third-person singular simple present not used, present participle metricking, simple past and past participle metricked)

  1. (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

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