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metric
English
Etymology
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?t.??k/
- Hyphenation: met?ric
Adjective
metric (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
- (music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
- (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to distance.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
metric (plural metrics or metrices)
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- (mathematics) A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": , (3) "symmetry": , and (4) "triangle inequality": .
- (mathematics) A metric tensor.
- Abbreviation of metric system.
Synonyms
- measure
- (mathematics): distance function
Hyponyms
- (mathematics): Euclidean metric, Hausdorff metric, spacetime metric, uniform metric, ultrametric
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
metric (third-person singular simple present metrics, present participle metricking, simple past and past participle metricked)
- (transitive, aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
See also
- meter
- avoirdupois
References
- metric on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- metric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- metric in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- A Course in Metric Geometry, American Mathematical Soc., 2001, ?ISBN, page 1
Friulian
Adjective
metric
- metric
Romanian
Etymology
From French métrique.
Adjective
metric m or n (feminine singular metric?, masculine plural metrici, feminine and neuter plural metrice)
- metric
- metrical
Declension
Further reading
- metric in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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petascale
English
Etymology
peta- +? scale
Adjective
petascale (not comparable)
- A metric for objects on the scale of quadrillions (1015 or 1,000,000,000,000,000) of elements. Most often used for computer systems; a petascale computer system operates at speeds measured in petaflops and has memory measured in petabytes.
Coordinate terms
- gigascale
- terascale
References
- Scalable System Software for Petascale Computer Systems
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Genomics glossary
Anagrams
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petascale From the web:
- what is petascale computing
- what does petascale mean
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