Metric

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having meter or poetic rhythm; pertaining to meter or to metrics; metrical.
  • noun. Same as metrics.
  • Quantitative; involving or relating to measures of distance, especially in different directions. See geometry.
  • Pertaining to that system of weights and measures of which the meter is the fundamental unit.
  • See gram.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
  • adjective. 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
  • adjective. analysis by volume; volumetric analysis.
  • adjective. See metric system in the vocabulary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. of or relating to the metric system of measurement
  • adjective. of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
  • adjective. Of or relating to distance
  • noun. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in Software Engineering)
  • noun. 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": .
  • verb. To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
  • noun. a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
  • noun. a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
  • adjective. based on the meter as a standard of measurement
  • adjective. the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
  • Word Usage
    "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"."
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