metric

metric

See also: -metric and mètric

English

Etymology

From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɹɪk
• Hyphenation: met‧ric

Adjective

metric (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
2. (music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
3. (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to distance.

Derived terms

• contrametric
• extrametric
• intrametric
• metrical
• metric carat
• metric foot
• metric level
• metric space
• metric structure
• metric system
• metric ton
• nonmetric
• normometric
• premetric
• pseudometric

 

Translations

relating to metric system

Afrikaans: metriek Bulgarian: метричен (metričen) Catalan: mètric Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: metrický (cs) Dutch: metriek (nl) Finnish: metrinen (fi) French: métrique (fr) Galician: métrico German: metrisch (de) Greek: μετρικός (el) (metrikós) Hebrew: מֶטְרִי‎ (he) m (metri) Hungarian: metrikus (hu) Irish: méadrach Italian: metrico (it) Kazakh: метрлік (metrlık) Latin: metricus Macedonian: ме́трички (mk) (métrički) Norwegian: Bokmål: metrisk (no) Nynorsk: metrisk Polish: metryczny Portuguese: métrico (pt) Romanian: metric (ro) Russian: метри́ческий (ru) (metríčeskij) Spanish: métrico (es) Swedish: metrisk (sv) Vietnamese: mét (vi) Welsh: metrig (cy)

relating to musical meter

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: metrinen (fi) French: métrique (fr) Greek: μετρικός (el) (metrikós) Italian: metrico (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: metrisk (no) Nynorsk: metrisk Spanish: métrico (es)

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Latin: (please verify) metricus Persian: (please verify) متریک‎ (fa) (metrik)

Noun

metric (plural metrics)

1. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
   • 2011 April 10, Financial Times:

     As for the large number of official statements that Spain is safe, I think they are merely a metric of the complacency that has characterised the European crisis from the start.

   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

   • 2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.07.004, page 106:

     The insight underlying such wordlists is that frequency, combined with metrics such as range and dispersion, profiles for teachers and students the relative usefulness of words.

   What metric should be used for performance evaluation?

   What are the most important metrics to track for your business?

   It's the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance.

   How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.

   There is a lack of standard metrics.

2. (mathematics) A function for the 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) "non-negativity": ${\\displaystyle d(x,y)\\geq 0}$, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": ${\\displaystyle d(x,y)=0{\\mbox{ iff }}x=y}$, (3) "symmetry": ${\\displaystyle d(x,y)=d(y,x)}$, and (4) "triangle inequality": ${\\displaystyle d(x,y)\\leq d(x,z)+d(z,y)}$.
   • 2000, Lutz Habermann, Riemannian Metrics of Constant Mass and Moduli Spaces of Conformal Structures‎:

     As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function.

3. (mathematics) A metric tensor.
4. Abbreviation of metric system.

Synonyms

• measure
• (mathematics): distance function

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): Euclidean metric, Hausdorff metric, spacetime metric, uniform metric, ultrametric

Derived terms

• Kasner metric
• landscape metrics
• performance metric
• premetric
• pseudoquasimetric
• quasimetric
• semimetric
• success metric

 

Translations

measure for something

Chinese: Mandarin: 指標／指标 (zh) (zhǐbiāo) Finnish: mittari (fi) French: métrique (fr) f German: Metrik (de) f, Messgröße f, Maß (de) n, Kriterium (de) n, Kennzahl (de) f, Kenngröße (de) f, Indikator (de) m Italian: metrica (it) f Japanese: 計量 (ja) (けいりょう, keiryō) Macedonian: ме́трика f (métrika) Russian: ме́трика (ru) f (métrika) Vietnamese: tiêu chuẩn (vi), thước đo (vi)

notion in mathematics

Chinese: Mandarin: 度量 (zh) (dùliàng) Czech: metrika f Finnish: metriikka (fi) French: métrique (fr) f German: Metrik (de) f Hungarian: metrika Italian: metrica (it) f Icelandic: firð f Japanese: 計量 (ja) (けいりょう, keiryō), メトリック (metorikku) Macedonian: метрика f (metrika) Polish: metryka (pl) f Portuguese: métrica (pt) f Russian: ме́трика (ru) f (métrika) Spanish: métrica (es) f Swedish: metrik (sv) c Vietnamese: mêtric

Verb

metric (third-person singular simple present metrics, present participle metricking, simple past and past participle metricked)

1. (transitive, aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

   We need to metric the status of software documentation.

   We need to metric the verification of requirements.

   We need to metric the system failures.

   The project manager is metricking the closure of the action items.

   Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department.

See also

• meter
• avoirdupois

References

• metric on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• metric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• metric in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• A Course in Metric Geometry, American Mathematical Soc., 2001, →ISBN, page 1

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Friulian

Adjective

metric

1. metric

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Romanian

Etymology

From French métrique.

Adjective

metric m or n (feminine singular metrică, masculine plural metrici, feminine and neuter plural metrice)

1. metric
2. metrical

Declension

Declension of metric

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	metric		metrică	metrici	metrice
	definite	metricul		metrica	metricii	metricele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	metric		metrice	metrici	metrice
	definite	metricului		metricei	metricilor	metricelor

Further reading

• metric in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)