metrogenic

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adjective

Discovered by or caused by testing or measurement, and otherwise undetectable.

“My high blood pressure and high cholesterol are metrogenic illnesses.”

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Meanings

adjectivemetrogenic (comparative more metrogenic, superlative most metrogenic)

comparative more metrogenic · superlative most metrogenic

  1. Discovered by or caused by testing or measurement, and otherwise undetectable.

    My high blood pressure and high cholesterol are metrogenic illnesses.

    1 more example

    Quantum physics suggests that certain states of subatomic particles are metrogenic: indeterminable until fixed by measurement.

Origin

From metro- + -genic.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

genometric
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APA

metrogenic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metrogenic

MLA

“metrogenic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metrogenic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metrogenic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metrogenic.

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