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Metrik — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • metric adjective Relating to the metric system of measurement, based on units like metres, litres, and grams.
  • metrics noun The study of metrical verse.

Senses

Metrik is used for these senses in English:

  • metric A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
  • metric (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 \times 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.
  • metrics study of metrical verse

metric — full definition

  1. adjective Relating to the metric system of measurement, based on units like metres, litres, and grams.
  2. noun A standard of measurement used to evaluate performance or quality.

metrics — full definition

  1. noun The study of metrical verse.
  2. noun The statistical analysis of data sets or big data.
  3. noun The theory of measurement.

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