Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the meter or the metric system: U.S. Customary units and their metric equivalents.
- n. A standard of measurement.
- n. Mathematics A geometric function that describes the distances between pairs of points in a space.
- adj. Of or relating to distance.
- n. Poetic meter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Quantitative; involving or relating to measures of distance, especially in different directions. See geometry.
- Having meter or poetic rhythm; pertaining to meter or to metrics; metrical.
- n. Same as metrics.
- Pertaining to that system of weights and measures of which the meter is the fundamental unit.
- See gram.
Wiktionary
- adj. of or relating to the metric system of measurement
- adj. music of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
- adj. mathematics, physics Of or relating to distance
- n. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in Software Engineering)
- n. mathematics 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": and , (2) "symmetry": , and (3) "triangle inequality": .
- v. transitive, aerospace, systems engineering To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit
WordNet 3.0
- n. a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
- n. a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
- n. a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
- adj. based on the meter as a standard of measurement
- adj. the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
Etymologies
- From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus ("pertaining to the system based on the meter"), from metrum ("a meter"); see meter. (Wiktionary)
- French métrique, from mètre, meter; see meter2.From Latin metricus, relating to measurement; see metrical.Greek (hē) metrikē (tekhnē), (the art) of meter, feminine of metrikos, relating to measurement; see metrical. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Maybe the way to get the US to convert to metric is to start using the proper name for the "English" weights and measures system: "British Imperial Units".”
NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch
“The game could be played in the reverse, where the metric is the number of people you see singing along/tapping feet/dancing.”
“Look, I'm agnostic on whether this 'metric' is accurate, or whether an entirely non-subjective metric of freedom is even possible.”
“I think the distances being metric is probably more of a problem for a short term visitor than it is for those of us that live here.”
distance in miles from EaglePassTexas to San Miguel de Allende
“The only relevant $$$ metric is the net FDIC liability vs. the public $$$$ required to restore solvency.”
“Why couldn't ESMD have simply directed that things be done in metric in the first place - in compliance with NASA's own regulations (note the OIG report from 2001 years before Constellation was even started).”
“TFP, or total factor productivity, is a key long-term metric, capturing technological and managerial efficiencies that the Conference Board believes have accounted for about a quarter of total global output growth in recent years.”
“The metric is percent of total unemployed that are unemployed for longer than 1 year.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Cost of our New Corporate State
“Also metric is much easier to calculate than the “English” system.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It Seems I Was Right About Daylight Savings Time
“The first, and most obvious metric is “subsidy dollar costs vs. GHG emissions reduced”.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Need Some Help on Alternative Energy Subsidies
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘metric’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
funky, pedal, bebop, rap, mix, sub, mid, rag, ECM, bpm, bop, Afro and 437 more...
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POL - mathematics
Mathematical metaphors in political discourse
radical, norm, linear, mapping, compute, sector, standard, additive, integrate, metric, modal, element and 54 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Words ending in ic, tic or nic.
clastic, elastic, caustic, spastic, frantic, lactic, moronic, ironic, panic, doric, diplomatic, bureaucratic and 202 more...
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know-it-all
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Consultantease
disconnect, performant, offline, value, metric, caveat, radar, readiness, synergy, silo, proactive, utilise and 2 more...
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tomduck's geeky words
obfuscate, recursive, idempotent, intractable, integer, spline, tesselate, node, tree, axis, delta, interleave and 68 more...
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Bands
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rise against, protest the hero, leathermøuth, mindless self ind..., my chemical romance, alexisonfire, mastodon, the number twelve..., muse, pencey prep, silverstein, the script and 84 more...
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language of the gods, the
Music on my DJ
pixies, mountain goats, spoon, soulwax, toadies, spooks, squish, stereolab, talking heads, subtle, teeth, okkervil river and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for metric.
bilby "The administration is evidently now 'tweaking' its metrics. But let's admit it: metrics in war almost invariably turn out to occupy treacherous terrain. Think of it as quagmire territory, in part because numbers, however accurate (and they often aren't), can lie -- or rather, can tell the story you would like them to tell. The Vietnam War was a classic metrics war. Sometimes it seemed that Americans in Vietnam did nothing but invent new ways of measuring success."
- Tom Engelhardt, Afghanistan by the Numbers, tomdispatch.com, 8 September 2009. Sep 8, 2009
chained_bear Popular Musicians if England Had Won the Revolutionary War. Sep 3, 2008