metric

1. not comparableOf or relating to the metric system of measurement.

   But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed.

   2018 December 24, The Editorial Board, “Yes, Virginia, there is good news this Christmas”, in USA Today

2. not comparableOf or relating to measurement by meters or by metrics.

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   This model is a basic framework for organizations to assess their current state and plan improvements in their Organizational resilience metric capabilities. Each level builds on the capabilities established in previous levels, aiming for continuous improvement and integration of resilience metrics into broader organizational practices. The intention of this model is to keep it aligned with Organizational Resilience Maturity Models while focusing on metric maturity.

   2024, Dawn Grzena, Bernard Jones, The Joy of Metrics: Harness the Power of Measurement and Visualization to Enhance Your Organizational Resilience Program, →ISBN

3. not comparableentertainmentOf or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
4. not comparablemathematicsOf or relating to distance.

plural metrics

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

   There is a lack of standard metrics.

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   What metric should be used for performance evaluation?

   What are the most important metrics to track for your business?

   It's the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance.

   How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.

   As for the large number of official statements that Spain is safe, I think they are merely a metric of the complacency that has characterised the European crisis from the start.

   2011 April 10, Financial Times

   Synonyms: measure

2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of metric system.
3. mathematical analysisA 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×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.

   As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function.

   2000, Lutz Habermann, Riemannian Metrics of Constant Mass and Moduli Spaces of Conformal Structures

   Synonyms: distance function

4. mathematicsA metric tensor.

present singular third person metrics · participle present metricking · participle past metricked · past metricked

1. transitivesystems engineeringaerospaceTo measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

   We need to metric the system failures.

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   We need to metric the status of software documentation.

   We need to metric the verification of requirements.

   The project manager is metricking the closure of the action items.

   Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department.