Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from 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 (Chem.) analysis by volume; volumetric analysis.
- adjective See
metric system in the vocabulary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or relating to the
metric system ofmeasurement - adjective music of or relating to the
meter of a piece of music. - adjective mathematics, physics Of or relating to
distance - noun A
measure for something; a means of deriving aquantitative measurement orapproximation for otherwisequalitative phenomena (especially used in Software Engineering) - noun mathematics 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 transitive, aerospace, systems engineering To
measure oranalyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of aprocess .
from 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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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".
NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch 2009
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The game could be played in the reverse, where the metric is the number of people you see singing along/tapping feet/dancing.
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Look, I'm agnostic on whether this 'metric' is accurate, or whether an entirely non-subjective metric of freedom is even possible.
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TFP, or total factor productivity, is a key long-term metric, capturing technological and managerial efficiencies that the Conference Board believes have accounted for about a quarter of total global output growth in recent years.
Productivity May Slow in 2011 Christopher Emsden 2011
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Why couldn't ESMD have simply directed that things be done in metric in the first place - in compliance with NASA's own regulations (note the OIG report from 2001 years before Constellation was even started).
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I think the distances being metric is probably more of a problem for a short term visitor than it is for those of us that live here.
distance in miles from EaglePassTexas to San Miguel de Allende 2009
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I think the distances being metric is probably more of a problem for a short term visitor than it is for those of us that live here.
distance in miles from EaglePassTexas to San Miguel de Allende 2009
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The metric is percent of total unemployed that are unemployed for longer than 1 year.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Cost of our New Corporate State 2010
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Why couldn't ESMD have simply directed that things be done in metric in the first place - in compliance with NASA's own regulations (note the OIG report from 2001 years before Constellation was even started).
More Poor Excuses On NASA's Fear of the Metric System - NASA Watch 2009
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The only relevant $$$ metric is the net FDIC liability vs. the public $$$$ required to restore solvency.
chained_bear commented on the word metric
Popular Musicians if England Had Won the Revolutionary War.
September 3, 2008
bilby commented on the word metric
"The administration is evidently now 'tweaking' its metrics. But let's admit it: metrics in war almost invariably turn out to occupy treacherous terrain. Think of it as quagmire territory, in part because numbers, however accurate (and they often aren't), can lie -- or rather, can tell the story you would like them to tell. The Vietnam War was a classic metrics war. Sometimes it seemed that Americans in Vietnam did nothing but invent new ways of measuring success."
- Tom Engelhardt, Afghanistan by the Numbers, tomdispatch.com, 8 September 2009.
September 9, 2009