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clio'metric
clio'metric
Metric
[
me
-trik
]
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ˈmɛ
trɪk
/
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Metric
may refer to:
Metric system
, a system of units developed in France in the 18th century
International System of Units
, or
Système International
(
SI
), 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
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