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Metric   /mˈɛtrɪk/   Listen
Metric

noun
1.
A function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them.  Synonym: metric function.
2.
A decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds).  Synonym: metric unit.  "It is easier to work in metric"
3.
A system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic.  Synonym: system of measurement.



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"Metric" Quotes from Famous Books



... ideals are presented in poetic form; plays, school-life, love of country, friendships, all take or are given metric expression. So, for children, hymns have a perfectly natural place. The child sings as he plays, sings as he works, sings in school, and, as long as life and memory hold, these words of song will be his possession; in declining years, ...
— Religious Education in the Family • Henry F. Cope

... in a dry, didactic voice. "The diameter is on the order of five times ten to the fourteenth micromicrons." He kept punching at the calculator. "If we assume a mean density of two point six six times ten to the minus thirty-sixth metric tons per cubic micromicron, we attain a mean mass of some one point seven four times ten to the eleventh kilograms." More punching, while he kept his eye on the meteorite, waiting for the spot to show up again. "And that, my dear Jules, gives us a surface gravity of approximately two ...
— Anchorite • Randall Garrett

... moreover, by the introduction of additional lines with alternate riming, with couplets and sometimes with triplets. There are many five-lined and six-lined stanzas, and one—the longest in the poem—of nine lines. But these metric variations are used with temperance. The stanza form is never complex; it is built up naturally from the ballad stanza upon which it rests and to which it constantly returns as its norm and type. Of the one hundred and forty-two stanzas in the poem, one hundred and six ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers



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