metric

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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/
• 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

Translations

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).
2. (mathematical analysis) 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 ${displaystyle d}$ on ${displaystyle M\times M}$, where ${displaystyle M}$ is a set, is called a metric if (1) ${displaystyle d(x,y)=0}$ if and only if ${displaystyle x=y}$, (2) ${displaystyle d(x,y)=d(y,x)}$ for all pairs ${displaystyle (x,y)}$, and (3) ${displaystyle d}$ obeys the triangle inequality.
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

Translations

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.

See also

• meter
• avoirdupois

References

• metric on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “metric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “metric”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Burago, Dimitri, Burago, Yuri, Ivanov, Sergei (2001) A Course in Metric Geometry, American Mathematical Soc., →ISBN, page 1

Friulian

Adjective

metric

1. metric

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French métrique. By surface analysis, metru +‎ -ic.

Adjective

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

1. metric
2. metrical

Declension

Further reading

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