Metric ormetrical may refer to:
- Metric system, an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement
- An adjective indicating relation tomeasurement in general, or a noun describing a specific type of measurement
In mathematics,metric may refer to one of two related, but distinct concepts:
- A function which measures distance between two points in ametric space
- Ametric tensor, in differential geometry, which allows defining lengths of curves, angles, and distances in a manifold
- Metric tensor (general relativity), the fundamental object of study in general relativity, similar to the gravitational field in Newtonian physics
- Senses related to measurement:
- METRIC, a model that uses Landsat satellite data to compute and map evapotranspiration (ET) in climatology/meteorology
Engineering and business
[edit]The wordmetric is often used to mean adescriptive statistic,indicator, orfigure of merit used to describe or measure something quantitatively, including:
- Alex Metric (born 1984), British musician, DJ and producer
- Metric (band), a Canadian rock band founded in Toronto, Ontario
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