Metric

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɛtɹɪk/, SAMPA: /"mEtrIk/
• Hyphenation: met‧ric

Etymology

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

Adjective

Metric (not comparable)

Positive Metric

Comparative not comparable

Superlative none (absolute)

1. of or relating to the metric system of measurement
2. (music) of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
3. Template:Maths Of or relating to distance

Derived terms

• metric carat
• metric level
• metric system
• metric space
• metric structure
• contrametric
• extrametric
• intrametric
• metrical

Translations

relating to metric system

Czech: metrický cs(cs) m. Finnish: metrinen fi(fi) French: métrique fr(fr) German: metrisch de(de) Greek: μετρικός el(el) (metrikós) Italian: metrico it(it) Latin: metricus

Macedonian: метрички mk(mk) (métrički) m. Polish: metryczny m. Portuguese: métrico pt(pt) m. Russian: метрический ru(ru) (metríčeskij) Spanish: métrico Swedish: metrisk sv(sv)

relating to musical meter

French: métrique fr(fr) Greek: μετρικός el(el) (metrikós)

Italian: metrico it(it)

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Latin: metricus Persian: متریک (metrik)

See also

• meter

Noun

Singular Metric

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1. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (esp. used in Software Engineering)
2. (mathematics) A measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "positive definiteness": $d(x,y) \ge 0$ and $d(x,y) = 0 \mbox{ iff } x=y$, (2) "symmetry": $d(x,y) = d(y,x)$, and (3) "triangle inequality": $d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y)$.

Synonyms

• measure

Derived terms

• Euclidean metric
• Hausdorff metric
• uniform metric

Translations

measure

Finnish: mittari fi(fi) French: métrique fr(fr) German: Metrik f.

Italian: metrica it(it) f. Macedonian: метрика mk(mk) (métrika) f.

mathematics

Czech: metrika cs(cs) f. Finnish: metriikka fi(fi) French: métrique fr(fr) German: Metrik f. Hungarian: metrika (2)

Italian: metrica it(it) f. Macedonian: метрика mk(mk) (métrika) f. Russian: метрика ru(ru) (métrika) f. Swedish: metrik sv(sv) c.

See also

• avoirdupois

External links

• Metric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Metric in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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