metric

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A standard for measuring or judging something, especially performance or quality.

   What metric should we use to measure success?

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to the system of measurement based on metres, litres, and grams.

   Most countries use the metric system.

3. 3
   noun

   A unit of measurement in the metric system.

   Convert all the measurements to metric units.

From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.

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