Metric

Adjective

 * 1) of or relating to the metric system of measurement
 * 2)  of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
 * 3)  Of or relating to distance

Derived terms

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

Noun

 * 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
 * 1)  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

Derived terms

 * Euclidean metric
 * Hausdorff metric
 * uniform metric

Verb

 * 1)  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

Thesaurus
antispastic, approximative, beating, cadenced, cadent, chorographic, dactylic, estimative, hypsographic, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm, measured, measuring, mensural, mensurational, mensurative, numerative, oceanographic, prosodic, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, quantitative, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, throbbing, topographic, trochaic, valuational, valuative

Etymology
From métrique (1864) <  metricus: < metrum:; see meter.

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