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metric

English

  1. 🔊 based on the meter as a standard of measurement
    “the metric system”
  2. 🔊 the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
  3. 🔊 a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
  4. 🔊 a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
    “convert all the measurements to metric units”
  5. 🔊 a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

Similar words

system of measurement metric unit metric function measured metrical metrical antispastic approximative beating cadenced cadent chorographic dactylic estimative hypsographic iambic in numbers in rhythm measured measuring mensural mensurational mensurative numerative