Word Finder - metrics

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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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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.

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The study of metrical verse.

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The statistical analysis of data sets or big data.

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The theory of measurement.

Current research activities include linking environmental sustainability metrics with economic and social metrics.

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

Usability metrics Usability metrics are precise, quality measures used to evaluate the system.

This also has the benefit of storing performance metrics of different tools separately, without conflict.

The meaning dominates so much over the form that in many instances the ghazals break the laws of traditional prosody and metrics.

Thinking Classics Essays on classical subjects; film reviews course on Greek scansion and metrics; commentary on intersections of antiquity and modernity.

If you are not certain of the dimensions given, Maryland Metrics has an excellent conversion table that is easy to understand.These elegant gold style earrings are available in many different diameters and thicknesses.

Great, interesting, on-topic writing, research with citations, and few errors are key metrics!

There are dozens of ways to skew Internet metrics.

Most applications simply use XLoadQueryFont to load a font to load a font and query the font metrics.

The lowest order contributions to the partition function will come from metrics with a U1 isometry, and given behavior at infinity.

These instructions explain how to use Adobe Audition to prepare a sound to calculate the sound quality metrics using the MATLAB codes provided.

The survival and segmentation models may be used to define metrics for data access.

For these programs, developers used an evolutionary approach, disciplined processes, and meaningful metrics.

All possible modulie will occur in the path integral over compact metrics.

These metrics are critical to calculate the network performance and to help identify any trouble spots in the network.

We have evaluated these confidence measures for utterance verification using a number of different metrics.

In the duel between the hunter and the beast-mind the intellectual powers of perception, memory, reason and will were developed; experience and knowledge by experience were enlarged, language and the graphic arts were fostered, the inventive faculty was evoked and developed, and primitive science was fostered in the unfolding of numbers, metrics, clocks, astronomy, history and the philosophy of causation.

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

Part of the appeal of social networking is the ability to apply direct response marketing metrics to website analytics to improve results.

In order for it to work properly, you need to have metrics in place to measure the return on your investment.

A Linux installation typically contains several independent sets of fonts or font metrics.

Thus, the conceptual space represents the organization of primitive semantic frames on some set of similarity metrics.

While Securitas primarily offers distance learning for its own purposes, the program has expanded to measuring several different metrics for external employers.

We develop online advertising tools and metrics, and of course we build Web sites.