metric

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• metric carat
• metric level
• metric system
• metric space
• metric structure
• contrametric
• extrametric
• intrametric
• metrical

Translations

relating to metric system

• Afrikaans: metriek (af)
• Czech: metrický (cs) m
• Dutch: metriek (nl)
• Finnish: metrinen (fi)
• French: métrique (fr)
• German: metrisch (de)
• Greek: μετρικός (el) (metrikós)
• Hungarian: metrikus (hu)
• Italian: metrico (it)

• Latin: metricus
• Macedonian: метрички (mk) (métrički) m
• Norwegian: metrisk (no)
• Polish: metryczny m
• Portuguese: métrico (pt) m
• Russian: метрический (ru) (metríčeskij)
• Spanish: métrico (es)
• Swedish: metrisk (sv)

relating to musical meter

• French: métrique (fr)
• Greek: μετρικός (el) (metrikós)

• Italian: metrico (it)

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• Latin: metricus
• Persian: متریک (metrik)

Noun

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": $d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y)$.

Synonyms

• measure

Hyponyms

• Euclidean metric
• Hausdorff metric
• uniform metric
• ultrametric

Translations

measure for something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 度量 (cmn) (dùliàng), 計量 (cmn), 计量 (cmn) (jìliàng)

• Finnish: mittari (fi)
• French: métrique (fr) f
• German: Metrik (de) f

• Italian: metrica (it) f
• Japanese: 計量 (ja) (けいりょう, keiryō)
• Macedonian: метрика (mk) (métrika) f
• Russian: метрика (ru) (métrika) f

notion in mathematics

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 度量 (cmn) (dùliàng)

• Czech: metrika (cs) f
• Finnish: metriikka (fi)
• French: métrique (fr) f
• German: Metrik (de) f
• Hungarian: metrika
• Italian: metrica (it) f

• Japanese: 計量 (ja) (けいりょう, keiryō), メトリック (ja) (metorikku)
• Macedonian: метрика (mk) (métrika) f
• Polish: metryka (pl) f
• Portuguese: métrica (pt) f
• Russian: метрика (ru) (métrika) f
• Spanish: métrica (es) f
• Swedish: metrik (sv) c

Verb

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

See also

• meter
• avoirdupois

External links

• metric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• metric in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911