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Word: metric (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • physics Of or relating to distance
  • music of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
  • of or relating to the metric system of measurement

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Noun:

  • A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (esp. used in Software Engineering)
  • mathematics A measurement of the "distance" between two points in some symmetry": d(x,y) = d(y,x) , and (3) "triangle inequality": d(x,y) le d(x,z) + d(z,y) .

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