metric
adjective
°of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
°(music) of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
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": .
synonyms: measure