Definition of "metric"
- adjective
Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
Of or relating to distance.
- noun
A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in Software Engineering).
A measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "positive definiteness": and , (2) "symmetry": , and (3) "triangle inequality": .
- verb
To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
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