metric
Etymology
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Etymology
From French métrique (1864), from nl. metricus, from metrum ("a meter"); see meter.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
metric (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
- (music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
- (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to distance.
- French: métrique
- German: metrisch
- Italian: metrico
- Portuguese: métrico
- Russian: метри́ческий
- Spanish: métrico
metric (plural metrics)
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- What metric should be used for performance evaluation?
- What are the most important metrics to track for your business?
- It's the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance.
- How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.
- There is a lack of standard metrics.
- (analysis) A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M \times M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y) = 0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y) = d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.
- (mathematics) A metric tensor.
- Abbreviation of metric system
- measure
- (mathematics) distance function
- French: métrique
- German: Metrik, Messgröße, Maß, Kriterium, Kennzahl, Kenngröße, Indikator
- Italian: metrica
- Russian: ме́трика
metric (metrics, present participle metricking; simple past and past participle metricked)
- (transitive, aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
- We need to metric the status of software documentation.
- We need to metric the verification of requirements.
- We need to metric the system failures.
- The project manager is metricking the closure of the action items.
- Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department.
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