Metric

Metric may refer to:

Metric system, a system of units developed in France in the 18th century
- SI, or Système International, the international system of units since 1960, a subset of the former
Metrics, a system of parameters that are measured
Metrics (networking), set of properties of a communication path
Metre (music), a measurement of beats in music
Metre (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of a verse
Metric (band), a Canadian indie rock band
In mathematics:
- Metric (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of distance in a metric space
- Norm (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of size in a normed vector space
- Metric tensor, a symmetric tensor of rank 2 used to measure distance
Software metrics, a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications

The metric system is a decimalised system of measurement. It exists in several variations with different choices of base units, though the choice of base units does A metric is a standard unit of measure such as Meter or Gram, or more generally part of a system of parameters or Systems of measurement, or a set of For other uses see Metric. Metrics is a property of a route in Computer networking, consisting of any value used by routing Meter or metre is a concept related to an underlying division of time characteristic of western music In Poetry, the meter or metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse. Metric is a Canadian New Wave / Indie rock band Originally formed in 1998 in New York City, they are currently based in Toronto Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and In Mathematics, a metric or distance function is a function which defines a Distance between elements of a set. In Mathematics, a metric space is a set where a notion of Distance (called a metric) between elements of the set is defined In Linear algebra, Functional analysis and related areas of Mathematics, a norm is a function that assigns a strictly positive length In Mathematics, with 2- or 3-dimensional vectors with real -valued entries the idea of the "length" of a vector is intuitive and can easily be extended to In the mathematical field of Differential geometry, a metric tensor is a type of function defined on a Manifold (such as a Surface in space A software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of Software or its specifications

Dictionary

-adjective

of or relating to the metric system of measurement

(music) of or relating to an even-note pattern or rhythmic unit which coincides with the pulses on a metric level. (DeLone et. al. (Eds.), 1975, chap. 3)

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-noun

A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (esp. used in Software Engineering)
(mathematics) A measurement of the distance between two points in some metric space; e.g. the Euclidean metric (sqrt(x² + y² + z²) in 3 dimensions).

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