Definition of Metrics

1. Noun. The study of poetic meter and the art of versification.


Definition of Metrics

1. Noun. (plural of metric) ¹

2. Noun. the study of metrical verse; prosody [treated as singular] ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metrics

1. metric [n] - See also: metric

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metrics

metricated
metricates
metricating
metrication
metrications
metrician
metricians
metricise
metricism
metricisms
metricity
metricize
metricized
metricizes
metricizing
metrics (current term)
metrification
metrifications
metrified
metrifies
metrifonate
metrify
metrifying
metring
metriocephalic
metriopatheia
metriplectic
metrist
metrists
metritides

Literary usage of Metrics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manufacturing Systems: Foundations of World-Class Practice by Joseph A. Heim, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences (1992)
"In the case of lean production, these metrics are used to measure the amount ... JIT metrics focus on the time between entry of materials into inventory and ..."

2. Mathematical Papers by William Kingdon Clifford (1882)
"XL ANALYTICAL metrics*. I. Introduction. 1. ANY one must have observed that there are two kinds of theorems in Geometry; one kind having reference to ..."

3. Reference Information for the Software Verification & Validation Process by Dolores R. Wallace, Laura M. Ippolito, Barbara B. Cuthill (1996)
"AI metrics In this report, a metric is defined to be the mathematical ... Two general classes of metrics include the following: • management metrics, ..."

4. Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century by Felix Klein, Robert Hermann (1979)
"HORIZONTAL COMPONENTS OF RIEMANNIAN metrics. REINHART metrics So far ... eg, in Relativity, use such metrics all the time, I do not believe it is ..."

5. Coping with an Oiled Sea: An Analysis of Oil Spill Response TechnologiesScience (1994)
"Table 5-3 describes the cost metrics included in the empirical analysis and ... The cost metrics reflect US impacts. When information was only available for ..."

6. Military Transformation and the Defense Industry After Next: The Defense by Peter J. Dombrowski, Eugene Gholz, Andrew L. Ross (2002)
"NCW and Shipbuilding: New Performance metrics? The most contentious part of the debate about network-centric warfare has concerned its implications for the ..."

7. Georg Rudolf Weckherlin by Aaron Schaffer (1918)
"... I GERMAN metrics FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO OPITZ A—INTRODUCTION The first quarter of the seventeenth century was fraught with great moment for the history ..."

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