"metric" meaning in English

See metric in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-metric.wav
Rhymes: -ɛtɹɪk Etymology: From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|métrique}} French métrique, {{der|en|NL.|metricus||pertaining to the system based on the meter}} New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} metric (not comparable)
  1. Of or relating to the metric system of measurement. Tags: not-comparable Translations (relating to metric system): metriek (Afrikaans), метричен (metričen) (Bulgarian), mètric (Catalan), metrický (Czech), metriek (Dutch), metrinen (Finnish), métrique (French), métrico (Galician), metrisch (German), μετρικός (metrikós) (Greek), מֶטְרִי (metri) (Hebrew), metrikus (Hungarian), méadrach (Irish), metrico (Italian), метрлік (metrlık) (Kazakh), metricus (Latin), ме́трички (métrički) (Macedonian), metrisk (Norwegian Bokmål), metrisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), metryczny (Polish), métrico (Portuguese), metric (Romanian), метри́ческий (metríčeskij) (Russian), métrico (Spanish), metrisk (Swedish), เมตริก (mee-dtrìk) (Thai), mét (Vietnamese), metrig (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-metric-en-adj-ed8aaaaJ Disambiguation of 'relating to metric system': 94 2 5
  2. (music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Music Translations (relating to musical meter): metrinen (Finnish), métrique (French), μετρικός (metrikós) (Greek), metrico (Italian), metrisk (Norwegian Bokmål), metrisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), métrico (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-metric-en-adj-~PiPyL1x Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'relating to musical meter': 20 72 8
  3. (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to distance. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Mathematics, Physics
    Sense id: en-metric-en-adj-LHevFmkf Topics: mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-metric.wav Forms: metrics [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛtɹɪk Etymology: From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|métrique}} French métrique, {{der|en|NL.|metricus||pertaining to the system based on the meter}} New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} metric (plural metrics)
  1. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering). Translations (measure for something): 指標 (Chinese Mandarin), 指标 (zhǐbiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), mittari (Finnish), métrique [feminine] (French), Metrik [feminine] (German), Messgröße [feminine] (German), Maß [neuter] (German), Kriterium [neuter] (German), Kennzahl [feminine] (German), Kenngröße [feminine] (German), Indikator [masculine] (German), metrica [feminine] (Italian), 計量 (keiryō) (alt: けいりょう) (Japanese), 계량 (gyeryang) (alt: 計量) (Korean), ме́трика (métrika) [feminine] (Macedonian), ме́трика (métrika) [feminine] (Russian), tiêu chuẩn (Vietnamese), thước đo (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-metric-en-noun-ytb0pRNu Disambiguation of 'measure for something': 100 0 0 0
  2. (mathematical 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×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. Categories (topical): Mathematical analysis Translations (notion in mathematics): 度量 (dùliàng) (Chinese Mandarin), metrika [feminine] (Czech), metriikka (Finnish), métrique [feminine] (French), Metrik [feminine] (German), metrika (Hungarian), firð [feminine] (Icelandic), metrica [feminine] (Italian), 計量 (keiryō) (alt: けいりょう) (Japanese), メトリック (metorikku) (Japanese), метрика (metrika) [feminine] (Macedonian), metryka [feminine] (Polish), métrica [feminine] (Portuguese), ме́трика (métrika) [feminine] (Russian), métrica [feminine] (Spanish), metrik [common-gender] (Swedish), mêtric (Vietnamese)
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  3. (mathematics) A metric tensor. Categories (topical): Mathematics
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  4. Abbreviation of metric system. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: metric system
    Sense id: en-metric-en-noun-1RS-1Ckg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: measure, distance function [mathematics, sciences] Hyponyms: Euclidean metric [mathematics, sciences], Hausdorff metric [mathematics, sciences], spacetime metric [mathematics, sciences], uniform metric [mathematics, sciences], ultrametric [mathematics, sciences]

Verb

IPA: /ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-metric.wav Forms: metrics [present, singular, third-person], metricking [participle, present], metricked [participle, past], metricked [past]
Rhymes: -ɛtɹɪk Etymology: From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|métrique}} French métrique, {{der|en|NL.|metricus||pertaining to the system based on the meter}} New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”) Head templates: {{en-verb|metrics|metricking|metricked}} metric (third-person singular simple present metrics, present participle metricking, simple past and past participle metricked)
  1. (transitive, aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process. Tags: transitive Related terms: meter, avoirdupois
    Sense id: en-metric-en-verb-vnTJufyq Topics: aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Ibanez had seen things with worse implications for herself, personally. That was the only metric of horror on which this sight knew remote equal. It was a wall, in a basic sense. It stretched from one side of the tunnel to the other, floor to ceiling, barring further passage. It was pink. It bubbled inside, and it sounded like a hundred simultaneous cases of indigestion which echoed off the rock around it.",
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