Word Finder - metric

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A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).

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How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.

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A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y) \ge 0 , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y) = 0 \mbox{ iff } x=y , (2) "symmetry": d(x,y) = d(y,x) , and (3) "triangle inequality": d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y) .

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A metric tensor.

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(aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

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Customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department.

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Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.

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Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.

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Of or relating to distance.

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The system of measurements developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.

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The modern version of that system, Systeme Internationale d'Unites (International System of Units), or SI system of measurements that is based on the base units of the meter/metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.

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Any variant of that system, that was not codified as SI, such as cgs.

In 1897, the use of metric units for trade was made lawful.

Incidentally, all of the screw in water pipe fittings on my (TR7) engine are METRIC!

In the measurement of temperature the Fahrenheit scale is still followed for imperial standards, and the Centigrade scale for metric standards.

The default file includes definitions for all familiar units, abbreviations and metric prefixes.

This would be a relatively sudden and dramatic increase over and above the 730 billion metric tons already in the atmosphere.

Under a law of the 4th of May 1907 it was enacted that the metric system of weights and measures should come into official use in three years from that date, and into general use in five years.

Free tools are provided to help with imperial to metric conversions.

By 1980 the catch nearly halved to 45,000 metric tons.

The use of metric weights and measures in trade only became lawful in Britain in 1897.

One can give its metric in terms of coordinates, sigma, chi, theta and phi.

Find out why using metric can help you in buying household appliances.

Cost per QALY is a useful metric, although more often a rather broad-brush assessment of value.

Shoppers are frequently unable to compare the prices of similar products without using a calculator to convert imperial into metric.

Measurements and weights metric measurements and weights metric measurements for products are followed by the imperial equivalent and are approximate.

On the other hand there, R is the completion of Q under the Euclidean metric.

Footnotes An equivalent technique for mapping a quantitative metric to a utility scale is described in [5] .

Now, we'd decided that the key metric was how much sooner would we be able to capture the benefit.

This is marked as a repeat if this distance metric falls below a small threshold.

Russia has over a thousand metric tons of highly enriched uranium, plus 150 metric tons of plutonium.

The proposed US facility would be capable of destroying 800 metric tons of weaponized agents each year.

In July, Taiwan donated 40 metric tons of rice to the people of Tanzania.

Finally, the authors propose a new metric that tries to overcome the weaknesses of the evaluated metrics.

The production of coal and lignite averaging 33,465,000 metric tons in the years 1901-1905 represents about 73% of the total consumption of the country; the surplus is supplied from Great Britain, Belgium and Germany.

The metric system of weights and measures has been officially adopted, but many older standards are used, such as the libra (1.012 lb avoirdupois), alqueire (0.36 imperial bushel), moio (2.78 imp. bushels), almude of Lisbon (3.7 imp. gallons) and almude of Oporto (5.6 imp. gallons).

These orbifold singularities in the backgrounds could be resolved, by replacing a small neighborhood of the nut, by an ALE metric.

The annual rate of soil loss in the SALT farm is 3.4 metric tons per hectares, well within the tolerable limits.

Distance metrics Any measure that we use should be a distance metric (non-negative, symmetric and respecting triangle inequality).

For a metric rough guide divide your weight in kilograms by 32.6 to give liters required per day.

Plans are available in U.S. standard as well as metric measurements, so make sure you pick a plan that will be compatible with your tools.

Ease of Use - Plans are available in metric and standard U.S. measurements, so buy a plan that's easy for you to understand and use.

Some diagrams are so crammed with information, with metric conversions and notations, that they can be hard to decipher.

The metric system of weights and measures was legalized in January 1893.

The metric system of weights and measures is the legal standard in Chile, but the old Spanish standards are still widely used, especially in handling mining and farm produce.

Nitrate of soda is estimated in Chilean quintals (101.41 lb) in the field, and metric quintals (220.46 lb) at the port of shipment.

On the metric system it is reckoned as 4500 kilogram-metres a minute, and the French cheval-vapeur is thus equal to 32,549 foot-pounds a minute, or 0.9863 of an English horse-power, or 736 watts.

The most prominent and profitable of these is that of rubber-collecting, which was begun in Bolivia between 1880 and 1890, and which reached a registered annual output of nearly 35 oo metric tons just before Bolivia's best rubber forests were transferred to Brazil in 1903.

The total output, coming chiefly from the departments of Bacau, Buzeu, Dimbovitza and Prahova, was 250,000 metric tons in 1900, 615,000 in 1905, and 1,300,000 in 1909.

The metric system of weights and measures has.

Over a large part of the civilized world the introduction of the metric system (§ 118) has caused the notation of all numerical quantities to be in the denary scale.

Similarly, in the metric system he cannot mentally compare two units, one of which is t000 times the other.

The metric system was adopted in France at the end of the 18th century.

The metric system is now in use in the greater part of the civilized world, but some of the measures retain the names of old disused measures.

For the restricted use of "metre" as a unit of measurement, see Metric System below.

The metric system is now obligatory in Argentina, Austria,-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Rumania, Servia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.

In England action has frequently been taken both by individuals and by associations of commercial men for the purpose of endeavouring to make the metric system compulsory.

A bill was introduced into parliament in 1864 to make the metric system compulsory for certain purposes, but owing to government objections a permissive bill was substituted and subsequently became law as the Metric Act 1864.

But in 1897 a statute was passed, the Weights and Measures (Metric System) Act, which legalized the use in trade of the metric system, and abolished the penalty for using or having in one's possession a weight or measure of that system.

But with views reaching beyond equality of rights to a certain equality of property, the committees, as regards legislation, poor relief and instruction, laid down principles which have never been realized, save in the matter of the metric system; so that the Convention which was dispersed on the 16th of October 1795 made a greater impression on political history and social ideas than on institutions.

Currencv, Weidhts and Measures.The metric system of weights and measures was officially adopted in Spain in 1859 and the decimal monetary system in 1871.

He was one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique, and shared in the establishment of the Institute of France; the adoption of the metric system and the foundation of the bureau of longitude were also due to his efforts.