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adj
Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of or relating to measurement by meters or by metrics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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adj
Of or relating to distance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, sciences
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noun
A way to measure something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: measure
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noun
Ellipsis of metric system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M×M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y)=d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematical-analysis, mathematics, sciences
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Synonyms: distance function
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noun
A metric tensor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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verb
To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: systems engineering
Topics: aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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adjective
based on the meter as a standard of measurement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: metrical
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adjective satellite
the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: measured, metrical
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noun
a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: system of measurement
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Broader terms: measure, quantity, amount
Narrower terms: standard, criterion, measure, touchstone, system of weights and measures, point system, information measure, utility, Brix scale, circular measure, board measure, Beaufort scale, system of weights, weight, temperature scale
noun
a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: metric unit
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Broader terms: unit of measurement, unit
Narrower terms: metric capacity unit, metric linear unit, metric weight unit, weight unit
noun
a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: metric function
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Broader terms: function, mathematical function, single-valued function, map, mapping
History
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.
Across languages
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