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▸ adjective:  Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
▸ adjective:  (music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics, physics) 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 engineering).
▸ noun:  (mathematical analysis) A 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.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) A metric tensor.
▸ verb:  (transitive, aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
▸ noun:  Abbreviation of metric system. [The system of units developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.]

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