METRIC

'Metric' may refer to:

★ Metric system, a system of units developed in France in the 18th century

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★ SI, or ''Système International'', the international system of units since 1960, a subset of the former

★ Metrics, a system of parameters that are measured

★ Metrics (networking), set of properties of a communication path

★ Metre (music), a measurement of beats in music

★ Metre (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of a verse

★ Metric (band), a Canadian indie rock band

★ In mathematics:

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★ Metric (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of ''distance'' in a metric space

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★ Norm (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of ''size'' in a normed vector space

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★ Metric tensor, a symmetric tensor of rank 2 used to measure distance

★ Software metrics, a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications