METRIC • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Metric

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

adjective

Metric adj.

Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.

Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.

Metric analysis (Chem.), analysis by volume; volumetric analysis.

Metric system, See metric system in the vocabulary.

See images of 'Metric'

Etymology of 'Metric'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Metric" Quotes from Famous Books

... aqueduct, of a tower dedicated to Janus, and a Roman bridge crossing the river Torenai. It may be interesting for an Englishman to recall that the Bishop of Autun, who often presided over the National Assembly, pleaded in vain with George III. for the adoption, in England, of the French metric system. ...

— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun

... the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water from 60 degrees to 61 degrees Fahrenheit. It is 251.9 times greater than the metric unit, therm or calorie, which is the amount of heat required to raise one gramme of water from 4 degrees to ...

— The Story Of Electricity • John Munro

... Exhilarative substances and beverages. The cocoa leaf. Betel-nut. Pepper plants. Thorn apples. The ledum and hop. Narcotic fungus. "Baby's" experiment with the red dye test sample. Test samples in dyeing. Color-metric tests in analyzing chemicals. Reagents. The meaning and their use. Bitter-sweet. Blue dye. Copper and lime as coloring substance. The completed flag. A hunting trip for the pole. Making a trailer. A pole fifty feet long determined on. Tethering the ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay

... cultivator of opium poppy and cannabis for the international drug trade; world's second-largest opium producer after Burma (950 metric tons in 1994) and ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... the time, under whose influence the Priestly Code itself also stood, and which then had for their result a complete change in the greater accuracy and more general applicability of the methods by which time was reckoned. A similar phenomenon presents itself in connection with the metric system. The "shekel of the sanctuary," often mentioned in the Priestly Code, and there only, cannot possibly have borne this name until the most natural objects of the old Israelite regime had begun to appear surrounded by a legendary nimbus, because ...

— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... boy who sows his metric salads His tamer oats, But always steals from Swinburne's ...

— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross

... machines. We will not marshal their aggregate numbers in a row, for an array of forty billions of them would make too insignificant a figure for inspection; but simply give their actual weight as computed under the French or metric system. Take, then, a million million million million of these machines, throwing in molecules and all, and they will weigh, if there is no indiscreet kicking of the beam, just a fraction between four and five grammes, or—to ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... Appendix G lists Weights and Measures. The appendix includes information on mathematical notation and metric interrelationships, as well as over 400 ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... William and Helen I had resolved to say nothing. Let me return to The Chase, of which the metric stanza style pleases me entirely; yet I think a few passages written in too elevated a strain for the general spirit of the poem. This age leans too much to the Darwin style. Mr. Percy's Lenore owes its coldness to the adoption of this; and it seems peculiarly incongruous in the ...

— Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) • John Gibson Lockhart

Words linked to "Metric" : mathematical function, measure, information measure, mapping, temperature scale, map, system of weights, metric capacity unit, unit, point system, natural philosophy, metric linear unit, metric weight unit, Beaufort scale, metric hundredweight, metric unit, rhythmic, prosody, quantity, measured, system of measurement, touchstone, non-metric, system of weights and measures, board measure