Metric

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Etymology

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Adjective

1. Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
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2. Template:Lb Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
3. Template:Lb Of or relating to distance.

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Noun

1. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).

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2. Template:Lb 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 $M\times M$, 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.
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3. Template:Lb A metric tensor.
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Synonyms

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Verb

1. Template:Lb To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

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See also

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References

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Further reading

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