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-metrics

a combining form with the meaning “the science of measuring” that specified by the initial element: biometrics; econometrics.

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Origin of -metrics

see origin at -metric, -ics

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Medicine definitions for -metrics

-metrics

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The application of statistics and mathematical analysis to a field of study:biometrics.

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