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1[ me-trik ]
noun
- Often metrics. a standard for measuring or evaluating something, especially one that uses figures or statistics:
new metrics for gauging an organization’s diversity;
pretty good by any metric.
metric
2[ me-trik ]
adjective
- pertaining to distance:
metric geometry.
noun
- 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.
-metric
3- a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -meter ( barometric ) or -metry ( geometric ).
metric
/ ˈɛٰɪ /
adjective
- of or relating to the metre or metric system
- maths denoting or relating to a set containing pairs of points for each of which a non-negative real number ρ( x, y ) (the distance) can be defined, satisfying specific conditions
noun
- maths the function ρ( x, y ) satisfying the conditions of membership of such a set (a metric space )
metric
/ ĕ′ĭ /
- Relating to the meter or the metric system.
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Example Sentences
"We are not going to look at these numbers with rose colored glasses... they were a disaster on every metric," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note on Wednesday.
But goals are far from the only metric that illustrates United's struggles.
The seven hydrogen hubs were collectively expected to produce 3 million metric tons of hydrogen each year — reducing 25 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, or roughly the amount of 5.5 million gas-powered cars.
It was so that the company could complete for contracts for which diversity was one of the metrics.
But the metric Trump cares about would improve.
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