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UK
/mˈɛtɹɪk/
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[ US /ˈmɛtɹɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈmɛtɹɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
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based on the meter as a standard of measurement
metrical equivalents
the metric system
NOUN
- a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
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a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
convert all the measurements to metric units
it is easier to work in metric - a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
How To Use metric In A Sentence
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- Melancholic melody, harmony, subtle dissonance, throat vibrato and asymmetric rhythms make up their choral, ‘a cappella’ style.
- Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
- Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
- He gave geometrical solutions to doubling a cube and trisecting an angle in this book.
- His work underscores the aeriality embedded in the rational geometric order of the regions settlement.
- This increase may partly be due to the changeover to metric.
- The spacecraft's mass at launch was some 13 tonnes, most of which was the propellants unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO). BBC News - Home
- Fingerprint recognition, which falls under a technology called biometrics, has been used for years in the corporate environment.
- Definitions of what was at stake were thus diametrically opposed.