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metric::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | system of measurement |
| Type of | measure, amount, quantity |
| Has types | utility, board measure, brix scale, circular measure, criterion, information measure, measure, point system, beaufort scale, standard, system of weights, system of weights and measures, temperature scale, touchstone, weight |
metric::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | metric function |
| Type of | mathematical function, map, single-valued function, mapping, function |
metric::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | metric unit |
| Type of | unit of measurement, unit |
| Has types | weight unit, metric capacity unit, metric linear unit, metric weight unit |
convert all the measurements to metric units.
it is easier to work in metric.
metric::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | metrical |
| Derivation | meter |
the metric system.
metrical equivalents.
Examples of metric
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Tin for three-month delivery climbed as high as $27,720 a metric ton on the LME.
From the bloomberg.com
The plant delivers about 700 metric tons, or 1.4 million pounds, of fish a year.
From the businessweek.com
You can also see that the metric has broken new highs for the past three months.
From the theatlantic.com
In 2005, the region produced 74 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
From the washingtonpost.com
There are other programs for ethnic studies and for mastering the metric system.
From the time.com
On that metric, is the city better or worse off than when City Journal launched?
From the theatlantic.com
And quality is a metric that Google's automated systems can now attack at scale.
From the techcrunch.com
Their people outperform competitors on every metric of productivity that exists.
From the washingtonpost.com
I see a lot of problems with his analysis, not the least of which is his metric.
From the scienceblogs.com
- Metric function: a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
- Based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric system"; "metrical equivalents"
- Measured: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
- System of measurement: a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
- (metrics) prosody: the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
- METRIC is a computer model (Mapping EvapoTranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration) that uses Landsat satellite data to compute and map evapotranspiration (ET) developed by the University of Idaho.
- Metric is a Canadian indie rock and New Wave band. Originally formed in Toronto, the band has also, at various times, been based in Montreal, London, New York City and Los Angeles.
- In general relativity, the metric tensor (or simply, the metric) is the fundamental object of study. It may loosely be thought of as a generalization of the gravitational field familiar from Newtonian gravitation. ...
- In mathematics, a metric or distance function is a function which defines a distance between elements of a set. A set with a metric is called a metric space. A metric induces a topology on a set but not all topologies can be generated by a metric. ...
