metric

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
    — What metric should be used for performance evaluation?
  2. A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M×M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y)=d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.
    — As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function.
  3. A metric tensor.
  4. Abbreviation of metric system. abbreviation,alt-of
动词 v.
  1. To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process. transitive
    — We need to metric the status of software documentation.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to the metric system of measurement. not-comparable
    — But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed.
  2. Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music. not-comparable
  3. Of or relating to distance. not-comparable

词形变化

metrics plural metrics present,singular,third-person metricking participle,present metricked participle,past metricked past

词源

词源 1
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.
词源 2
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.
词源 3
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.
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