English Explanatory Dictionary

metric

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  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.
noun
  1. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
  2. 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.
  3. A metric tensor.
  4. Abbreviation of metric system.
verb
  1. To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-metric.wav

Word forms

metric metrics metricking metricked

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

measure distance function

Related words

meter avoirdupois

Derived words

antimetric bimetric centimetric chemometric clinicometric contrametric eumetric extrametric hemimetric heterometric hypermetric hypometric intrametric macrometric metrical metricate metrication metric carat metric compatibility metric-compatible metric conversion metric foot metric fuckton metric horsepower metric inch metricise metricism metricist metricity metricization metricize metric level metric martyr metric mile metric ounce metric-ounce metric pound metric prefix metric shitload metric space metric structure metric system metric time metric ton metric tonne metrification monometric multimetric nonmetric normometric plurimetric polymetric pseudometric psychometric tetrametric unimetric premetric Alcubierre metric discrete metric Kasner metric

Translations

Bulgarian: метрика Chinese Mandarin: 度量 Czech: metrika Finnish: metriikka French: métrique German: Metrik Hungarian: metrika Icelandic: firð Italian: metrica Japanese: 計量 Japanese: メトリック Macedonian: метрика Polish: metryka Portuguese: métrica Russian: ме́трика Spanish: métrica Swedish: metrik Vietnamese: mêtric
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