Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use or study of metrical structures in verse; prosody.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The philosophical and mathematical theory of measurement.
- noun The art of versification.
- noun The science or doctrine which treats of rhythm in language and its employment in poetic composition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
metric .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
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Examples
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Quite obvious that the wrong kind of metrics is used.
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If only we'd had poetry sessions in 'metrics 4 last year.
Friday poetry corner 2009
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"The [Microsoft] board should have set a timer on Ballmer's tenure and said 'if we don't start seeing certain metrics then we're going to find a replacement for you,'" Kay says.
Canning Steve Ballmer no Microsoft cure-all Jon Brodkin 2010
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We had questions about adding in metrics, stats, to use both for reporting and keeping funders/bosses happy and for diagnostics - to e.g. find out which areas of the collection are being queried, what people are finding interesting. github repository as place to register open tables to make them discoverable.
Archive 2009-04-01 Mia 2009
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We had questions about adding in metrics, stats, to use both for reporting and keeping funders/bosses happy and for diagnostics - to e.g. find out which areas of the collection are being queried, what people are finding interesting. github repository as place to register open tables to make them discoverable.
Christian Heilmann on Yahoo!'s YQL, open data tables, APIs Mia 2009
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Senior officials said the "meat" of the work on the metrics is complete and that a draft has been sent to key members of Congress for their input.
Administration sets benchmarks to measure Afghanistan progress 2009
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One reason I keep metrics is that it keeps me honest about how much work I am doing and how much time I need to do it in.
Alert and oriented. After a fashion. ashacat 2008
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Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani, The Turnaround by William Bratton and Peter Knobler, and Moneyball by Michael Lewis — these three books explain metrics-based management, a key to 21st century government, which I write about in Real Change.
Newt Gingrich Answers Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani, The Turnaround by William Bratton and Peter Knobler, and Moneyball by Michael Lewis — these three books explain metrics-based management, a key to 21st century government, which I write about in Real Change.
Newt Gingrich Answers Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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From your Analytics account, locate your TV Campaign metrics from the AdWords drop down under Traffic Sources on the left navigation bar.
Track online impact of Google TV Ads using Google Analytics 2008
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