Definition of Metric

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Metric

Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.

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.

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As, By, Decimal, Involving, Is, Measurement, Meter, Metric, Of, Or, Pertaining, Proceeding, Relating, Standard, System, The, To, Unit, Which

Metric Quotations

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barry

I'm not familiar with the metric system.
Patton Oswalt

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Doug Coupland

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'
Brian Ferneyhough

Metric Translations

metric in Dutch is metriek
metric in German is metrisch, metisch
metric in Swedish is meter

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