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• adjective
Relating to or based on the decimal system of measurement that uses the meter, liter, and gram as base units.
"All laboratory measurements must be recorded in metric units."
Relating to the measurement of distance or quantitative properties in mathematics and physics.
"The physicist analyzed the metric properties of curved spacetime."
Relating to poetic meter or rhythmic structure in verse and music.
"The poet experimented with complex metric patterns in her latest collection."
• noun
A standard or quantitative measure used for assessing, comparing, or tracking performance or activity.
"Customer retention is a key metric for evaluating the success of our subscription model."
A mathematical function that defines the distance between each pair of elements in a set.
"In geometry, the Euclidean metric defines the ordinary distance between two points in space."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from French 'métrique', from Latin 'metricus', which derives from Ancient Greek 'metrikos' ('pertaining to measurement or meter'), from 'metron' ('measure').