metric

Using the measurement system based on metres, grams, and litres.

• This ruler has metric markings.
• We use metric units to measure weight.
• Can you convert these lengths into metric measurements?

Opposites: imperial

Common phrases: metric system, metric units, metric measurements

Relating to distance or to a mathematical way of measuring distance between points.

• The proof uses metric properties of the space.
• Each metric space has a way to measure distance.
• They compared the metric structures of the two surfaces.

Common phrases: metric space, metric properties, metric structure

A measurement used to judge how well something works or how much of something there is.

• Sales are one useful metric.
• We need better metrics for customer satisfaction.
• Which metric did you use to compare the teams?

Similar words: measure, indicator

Common phrases: performance metric, key metric, success metric

A mathematical quantity that tells you how to measure distances and angles in a space.

• The metric determines distances on the surface.
• They calculated the metric for curved spacetime.
• Changing the coordinates changes how we write the metric.

Similar words: metric tensor

Common phrases: metric tensor, spacetime metric, a flat metric

To collect and examine numbers showing how well a process works.

• We need to metric this process.
• The engineers metric performance after each software update.
• They metric the results to identify slow stages.

Similar words: measure, evaluate, assess

Common phrases: metric a process, metric software quality, metric performance