Look up metric or -metric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Metric or metrical may refer to: Metric system, an internationally adopted decimal system...
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A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today...
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In mathematics, a metric space is a set together with a notion of distance between its elements, usually called points. The distance is measured by a function...
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Metric time is the measure of time intervals using the metric system. The modern SI system defines the second as the base unit of time, and forms multiples...
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The metric system is a decimal-based system of measurement. The current international standard for the metric system is the International System of Units...
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METRIC (Mapping EvapoTranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration) is a computer model developed by the University of Idaho, that uses...
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Metric is a Canadian indie rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine...
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In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a metric tensor (or simply metric) is an additional structure on a manifold M (such as a surface)...
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In Einstein's theory of general relativity, the Schwarzschild metric (also known as the Schwarzschild solution) is an exact solution to the Einstein field...
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and computer science, a string metric (also known as a string similarity metric or string distance function) is a metric that measures distance ("inverse...
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Expansion of the universe (redirect from Metric expansion)
metric (FLRW), where it corresponds to an increase in the scale of the spatial part of the universe's spacetime metric tensor (which governs...
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International System of Units (redirect from Introduction to the metric system)
(from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. Coordinated...
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Tonne (redirect from Metric tonne)
use with SI. It is also referred to as a metric ton in the United States to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton (United States customary...
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Metrication in the United States (redirect from Metric system in the United States)
units or the metric system, to replace a jurisdiction's traditional measuring units. U.S. customary units have been defined in terms of metric units since...
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distance or Kantorovich–Rubinstein metric is a distance function defined between probability distributions on a given metric space M {\displaystyle M} . It...
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Diameter (redirect from Metric diameter)
hypercube or a set of scattered points. The diameter or metric diameter of a subset of a metric space is the least upper bound of the set of all distances...
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a software metric is a standard of measure of a degree to which a software system or process possesses some property. Even if a metric is not a measurement...
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relativity, the metric tensor (in this context often abbreviated to simply the metric) is the fundamental object of study. The metric captures all the...
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of a metric tensor can be extended to an arbitrary vector bundle, and to some principal fiber bundles. This metric is often called a bundle metric, or...
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Metrication (redirect from Metric movement)
the metric system of measurement. All over the world, countries have transitioned from local and traditional units of measurement to the metric system...
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Pound (mass) (redirect from Metric pound)
as historical and are no longer in common usage, being replaced by the metric system. Usage of the unqualified term pound reflects the historical conflation...
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The Kerr metric or Kerr geometry describes the geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially symmetric black hole with a quasispherical...
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Service level indicator (redirect from SLA metrics)
agreements (SLAs); an SLI can be called an SLA metric (also customer service metric, or simply service metric). Though every system is different in the services...
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In mathematics, a metric connection is a connection in a vector bundle E equipped with a bundle metric; that is, a metric for which the inner product...
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Riemannian manifold (redirect from Riemannian metric)
Riemann, who first conceptualized them. Formally, a Riemannian metric (or just a metric) on a smooth manifold is a choice of inner product for each tangent...
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Routing metrics are configuration values used by a router to make routing decisions. A metric is typically one of many fields in a routing table. Router...
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Pseudo-Riemannian manifold (redirect from Pseudo-Riemannian metric)
called a semi-Riemannian manifold, is a differentiable manifold with a metric tensor that is everywhere nondegenerate. This is a generalization of a Riemannian...
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ROUGE, or Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation, is a set of metrics and a software package used for evaluating automatic summarization and...
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Metric Today is the bi-monthly newsletter of the US Metric Association. It features the latest developments in US metrication efforts. It has been published...
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trust metric is a measurement or metric of the degree to which one social actor (an individual or a group) trusts another social actor. Trust metrics may...
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