MEANING
1. A specified standard, measure, or system used to evaluate a quantity, performance, or change.
2. Using or relating to a system of units based on metres, kilograms, and litres.
3. Relating to patterns of beats or syllables in poetry; as a noun, their structural study.
Use it for
specifying how performance is evaluated; distinguishing a measured indicator from the goal it represents; comparing conclusions based on different measurement standardsDistinguishes a chosen measurement standard, a unit system, poetic meter, and a formal mathematical distance rule. Academic functions: Research / Methodology, Comparison / Contrast.
Words that belong together
- performance metric
- evaluation metric
- a metric for the outcome
On the page
The evaluation uses waiting time as one metric rather than a complete measure of service quality.
Changing the metric alters the ranking, so the comparison must justify what it measures.
The report converts all lengths to metric units before comparing the dimensions.
Using metric measurements makes the units consistent but does not remove measurement error.
The critic examines how the poem’s metric pattern conflicts with the pauses implied by its syntax.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- metric
Usage notes
Count noun: metric, metrics, for standards or mathematical distances. Adjective in metric units and metric verse; no normal synthetic comparison. In prosody, metrics may name the study of verse structure. Register: technical. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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