metric
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From French métrique (1864) < New Latin metricus (“‘pertaining to the system based on the meter’”) < metrum (“‘a meter’”); see meter.
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metric (not comparable)
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- of or relating to the metric system of measurement
- (music) of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
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- metric carat
- metric level
- metric system
- metric space
- metric structure
- contrametric
- extrametric
- intrametric
- metrical
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relating to metric system
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[edit] Noun
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metric (plural metrics)
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (esp. used in Software Engineering)
- (mathematics) A measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "positive definiteness":
and d(x,y) = 0 iff x = y, (2) "symmetry": d(x,y) = d(y,x), and (3) "triangle inequality": 
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measure
mathematics
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- metric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- metric in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
