Definitions for metric

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metric met·ric

Spelling: [me-trik]

IPA: /ˈmɛ trɪk/

Metric is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in metric (ceimrt).

Definitions for metric

noun

1. Often, metrics. a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics:
2. Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.

adjective

1. pertaining to the meter or to the metric system.
2. pertaining to distance:
3. metrical.

Origin of metric

1860-65; French métrique, derivative of mètre meter¹; see -ic

Examples for metric

The metric system of weights and measures has been in force since 1878.

Do you have any kind of metric for whether what you're doing is working or not?

The metric system of weights and measures is one in which the meter is the unit of measure.

The latter was the only one that was under the metric carat.

In any modern work on horology of value, the metric system is used.

The metric symbols are treated as abbreviations but the chemical symbols are not.

Outside of simply helping to match your input to your output, use the metric to help increase your movement throughout the day.

The “calories in vs. calories out” equation for obtaining a lean physique can make this metric a major focus point.

“You are applying Western metrics to someone who is not using that metric against you,” referring to ISIS, Bolger said.

America sent less than 2,000 metric tons of cheese to China in 2009.