meaning of metric

1. Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
2. Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.
3. See Metric, a.
4. metric software metric metric space A set of points together with a function, d, called a metric function or distance function. The function assigns a positive real number to each pair of points, called the distance between them, such that: 1. For any point x, dx,x=0; 2. For any two distinct points x and y, dx,y>0; 3. For any two points x and y, not necessarily distinct, dx,y = dy,x. 4. For any three points x, y, and z, that are not necessarily distinct, dx,z <= dx,y + dy,z. The distance from x to z does not exceed the sum of the distances from x to y and from y to z. The sum of the lengths of two sides of a triangle is equal to or exceeds the length of the third side.
5. a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

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