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metric

Syllables: met·ric/ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/

metric adjective: of or relating to the metric system of measurement. Also the ellipsis of metric system.

Adjective

metric (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
    • But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed.2018 December 24, The Editorial Board, “Yes, Virginia, there is good news this Christmas”, in USA Today
  2. Of or relating to measurement by meters or by metrics.
    • This model is a basic framework for organizations to assess their current state and plan improvements in their Organizational resilience metric capabilities. Each level builds on the capabilities established in previous levels, aiming for continuous improvement and integration of resilience metrics...2024, Dawn Grzena, Bernard Jones, The Joy of Metrics: Harness the Power of Measurement and Visualization to Enhance Your Organizational Resilience Program, →ISBN
  3. Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
  4. Of or relating to distance.

Noun

metric (plural metrics)

  1. A way to measure 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?
    Synonyms:
    measure
  2. 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×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.
    • As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function.2000, Lutz Habermann, Riemannian Metrics of Constant Mass and Moduli Spaces of Conformal Structures
  3. A metric tensor.

Verb

metric (third-person singular simple present metrics, present participle metricking, simple past and past participle metricked)

  1. (transitive, 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.

Also used as

metric is also the ellipsis of metric system.

metric meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

metric in Hindi

मीट्रिक, मेट्रिक

metric in Tamil

மெட்ரிக்

metric in Marathi

मेट्रिक, मेट्रिकला

metric in Urdu

میٹرک
More languagesFewer languages
metric in Bengali
মেট্রিক
metric in Telugu
మెట్రిక్
metric in Malayalam
മെട്രിക്
metric in Kannada
ಮೆಟ್ರಿಕ್
metric in Punjabi
ਮੀਟ੍ਰਿਕ, ਮੀਟਰਿਕ
metric in Gujarati
મેટ્રિક
metric in Odia
ମେଟ୍ରିକ, ମେଟ୍ରିକକୁ
metric in Nepali
मेट्रिक, मेट्रिकिङ
metric in Thai
เมตริก mee-dtrìk
metric in Vietnamese
mét, mêtric, tiêu chuẩn, thước đo

Examples of metric in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.

All 40 example sentences with metric

Synonyms of metric

Forms of metric

Noun
pluralmetrics
Verb
third-person singular presentmetrics
present participlemetricking
past participlemetricked
pastmetricked

Plural of metric: metrics

Origin of metric

From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.

Words formed from metric

Phrases with metric

10 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with metric

Questions about metric

What does metric mean?
Metric means of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
What is metric in Hindi?
Metric in Hindi is मीट्रिक, मेट्रिक. See Metric meaning in Hindi.
How do you use metric in a sentence?
It's the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance.
What part of speech is metric?
Metric can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce metric?
Metric is pronounced /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/.

Words near metric in the dictionary

  1. metri causa
  2. metri gratia
  3. metrial
  4. metribolone
  5. metribuzin
  6. metric
  7. metric carat
  8. metric compatibility
  9. metric conversion
  10. metric conversions
  11. metric feet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: metric (page history and authors); metric (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); metric (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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