metric
1pertaining to the meter or to the metric system.
Often metrics . a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics: new metrics for gauging an organization’s diversity;pretty good by any metric.
Origin of metric
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pertaining to distance: metric geometry.
Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.
Origin of metric
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a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -meter (barometric) or -metry (geometric).
Origin of -metric
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How to use metric in a sentence
“You are applying Western metrics to someone who is not using that metric against you,” referring to ISIS, Bolger said.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTTake the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAmerica sent less than 2,000 metric tons of cheese to China in 2009.
While approximately one in every 25 attempts among adults results in death, that same metric is one in five for under-29s.
Do you have any kind of metric for whether what you're doing is working or not?
Hanging Out With the Minds Behind Google Doodles and Chrome Experiments | Douglas Wolk | May 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The British measure of energy is the foot-pound; the metric measure is the kilogrammetre.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine | Robert H. ThurstonConvention of May 20, 1875, regarding the unification and improvement of the metric system.
To appreciate its metre, one must so enter into the spirit of a poem that the metric movement is felt as a part of its expression.
Browning and the Dramatic Monologue | S. S. CurrySo complex, so mysterious, is the metric expression of feeling, that no one poem can be made a standard for another.
Browning and the Dramatic Monologue | S. S. CurryIt is impossible to read it in its proper spirit when not correctly rendering its metric rhythm.
Browning and the Dramatic Monologue | S. S. Curry
British Dictionary definitions for metric
/ (ˈmɛtrɪk) /
of or relating to the metre or metric system
maths denoting or relating to a set containing pairs of points for each of which a non-negative real number ρ(x, y) (the distance) can be defined, satisfying specific conditions
maths the function ρ(x, y) satisfying the conditions of membership of such a set (a metric space)
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Scientific definitions for metric
[ mĕt′rĭk ]
Relating to the meter or the metric system.
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