measured vs metric

measured

adj
  • That has been determined by measurement. 

  • Rhythmically written in meter; metrical. 

  • Deliberate but restrained. 

metric

adj
  • Of or relating to the metric system of measurement. 

  • Of or relating to distance. 

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

verb
  • To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process. 

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

  • A metric tensor. 

  • 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)>0, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y)=0 mbox iffx=y, (3) "symmetry": d(x,y)=d(y,x), and (4) "triangle inequality": d(x,y) search related words by phrase or description.

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