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adjective ˈmɛtrɪkˈmɛtrɪk 1Relating to or based on the metre as a unit of length. 米的；米制的，公制的 all measurements are given in metric form 所有的计量都是公制。 Example sentencesExamples - Each color has its own wavelength, from dark red, which has the longest wavelength, to violet, which has the shortest wavelength, expressed in metric units of length.
- Most metric recipes were based on a weight unit of 25 grams - slightly less than an ounce - and a liquid measure of half a litre, which was slightly less than a pint.
- The first mission, Mars Climate Orbiter, didn't stop fast enough and crashed into Mars because engineers didn't convert between metric and imperial units properly.
- The tool accepts both inch and metric data, and computes parameters such as torque.
- In the United States, the engineers work in imperial units, while in the rest of the world, metric units are primarily used.
- Give weights, measurements, and medication dosages in metric units and temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celsius degrees.
- Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.
- This system contains most of the metric units you are used to, like meters and kilograms, but also includes units for many other physical and engineering properties.
- Most students will more immediately comprehend data given in the text because of the use of English rather than metric units.
- The metric version of these numbers is 26.5 liters per kilogram of beans
- This is a rare case of a social scientific measure that has become so well known that the measure and the concept are almost as synonymous as temperature and the centigrade or Fahrenheit scales, or as length and the metric scale.
- Water was used as the basis for establishing the metric unit of mass, however, so it is easier to remember that a cubic centimeter of it has a mass of 1 gm.
- Further, the news that the kilo is in such imminent danger of extinction will no doubt be seen as a vindication by Brits reluctant to sell their fruit and veg in metric units.
- All this really means is that you are not using metric units.
- The minister said the review will be part of a planned changeover to metric speed limit signage, from MPH to kilometers per hour.
- The road is measured in miles, or in these EU directed metric times, kilometres and the journey in hours and minutes.
- Our products are offered both in inch and metric sizes.
- But metric units needed paper for calculations and hence they were not related to everyday life.
- He used the pyramids as support for a totally barmy argument against metric units.
- A button can also convert a number between Imperial and metric units, or look up a word in the dictionary, or fetch data from a database or Web site.
- 1.1 Relating to or using the metric system.
采用米制的，采用公制的 we should have gone metric years ago 我们几年前早就该采用公制了。
2Mathematics Physics
Relating to or denoting a metric. 〔数，物理〕度规的 the metric equation of Minkowski space–time Example sentencesExamples - The relationship is precisely specified by the most profound equation of STR, usually called the metric equation (or line metric equation).
- Progress was being made in that gravitation was described for the first time by the metric tensor but still the theory was not right.
- He also conformed, perhaps more happily, to the decisions regarding the metric division of angles into 100 subdivisions.
- Isoperi metric problems have been a source of important mathematical ideas and techniques since classical antiquity.
- It is possible to prove the above result without using metric properties (merely using order axioms), but it is not possible to drop the order axioms themselves.
noun ˈmɛtrɪkˈmɛtrɪk 1technical A system or standard of measurement. 〈技〉计量体系，衡量标准 the levels of branching are arbitrary and no precise metric is applied to distance between the nodes Example sentencesExamples - If the metric does not meet standards, it might indicate a problem with training, or it might signal a significant problem that will affect the wing's performance.
- The metric should also measure the degree to which the compliance system adopted by a company is effective beyond merely the regulatory requirements specific to FDA.
- The two standard metrics for information retrieval are relevance and retrieval, i.e. what percentage of all the good stuff you get back.
- That loss can be measured using standard metrics of compensating variation, equivalent variation, or consumer surplus using national demand functions.
- This means that worst-case measurements of system metrics are the only thing that matters to a hard real-time application, because these are the cases that cause a missed deadline.
- 1.1metrics (in business) a set of figures or statistics that measure results.
（商业用语）衡量标准 Example sentencesExamples - Finally, abandoning value metrics is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- We see an up tick in the metrics we use to evaluate the amount of potential business in our pipeline.
- It's one of the great metrics of a successful business.
- These are the types of metrics clients will demand.
- Few managers, it's safe to say, spent much time thinking about metrics or best practices.
- Embracing value-based metrics fully means taking the time to adjust their inner workings to fit your company's needs.
- Substituting low-quality performance metrics for value metrics represents a step in the wrong direction.
- The review also shows that in most cases the growth in these metrics far exceeds the growth in their loan books.
- You provide that evidence by going through the metrics of the sales process.
- But taking the sector as a whole, performance on all of the key metrics has been dire.
- No doubt, the combination of money and smart metrics is tough to beat.
- Another hospital chain honing its use of metrics is New Delhi-based Fortis.
- 1.2Mathematics Physics A binary function of a topological space which gives, for any two points of the space, a value equal to the distance between them, or to a value treated as analogous to distance for the purpose of analysis.
〔数，物理〕度规 with modifier the external structure of space–time is described by the Schwarzschild metric Example sentencesExamples - On page three of this text (the first full page after the preface) the Schwarzchild metric is written down.
- A Banach space is a real or complex normed vector space that is complete as a metric space under the metric induced by the norm.
- The Robertson-Walker metric which Walker mentions in this quotation arose from joint work which he did with his colleague H P Robertson in the late 1930s.
- We conclude that a trend analysis of median comet metrics from repeated experiments at different stress levels is certainly an efficient way to statistically demonstrate a genotoxic effect.
- Weyl opened the way to the conformal differential geometry of Riemannian spaces in which one studies the properties of the spaces invariant under the so-called conformal transformation of the Riemannian metric.
2informal mass noun The metric system. 采用米制的，采用公制的 it's easier to work in metric 用米制单位更容易操作。 Example sentencesExamples - The only sensible solution is to complete the changeover to metric, and as swiftly and cleanly as possible.
- In or about July, 2005, you're going to go metric.
- But for most people, metric is just an irritation which they overcome.
- Burt took a deep breath and launched into a lengthy explanation of the technicalities of the game, which seems to involve yards and other things I thought the EU made illegal when we all went metric.
- Earlier this year, the Repubic of Ireland successfully converted its signs to metric without any significant problems.
- I found myself constantly doing the mental trick I did in Austraila, where in my head, I pre-scan every word I am about to say, looking for any mentions of numerical data that would have to be converted to metric.
- And in line with already-announced changes, road signs displaying limits in miles-per-hour will go metric nationwide within the next 12 months.
- Like the inhabitants of small villages in Surrey, I don't do metric.
- I've yet to find one customer to ask for anything in metric, and you can ask any customer I serve and I do serve a lot of customers.
- This increase may partly be due to the changeover to metric.
- As Evening Press correspondents continue to mull over metric's efficiencies and deficiencies, we decided to look back at how the paper had covered the changeover from imperial in the Seventies.
- He was also president of the York Chamber of Trade and as far back as the 1940s was keen to see Britain going metric, as he felt it would help the country in all ways in the long-term.
- However, a spokesman for the Department for Transport said: ‘The derogation says we will go to metric when we choose a date.’
- They use metric here in Japan, though, so ‘centimeters towards meaningful democracy’ would be more correct, but in reality the change is closer to micrometric.
- No change in speeding: The new signs to control speed in metric has had little effect on the traffic passing through the town centre.
- Oh, I never learned metric… what's that in inches?
- You try to think how much fabric you will need, translating shapes into metres, or in my case, yards which I then convert to metric.
- Do you remember what happened as soon as we went metric?
- There was one when Stella compared the initial feeling of losing her memory to what it was like to live in Canada around the time that it suddenly switched to metric.
- We are not against metric, but against the enforcement of it in this country.
OriginMid 19th century (as an adjective relating to length): from French métrique, from mètre (see metre1). Rhymesanthropometric, asymmetric, diametric, geometric, isometric, kilometric, obstetric, psychometric, pyrometric, sociometric adjective ˈmɛtrɪkˈmɛtrɪk Relating to or composed in a poetic metre. 诗韵的；用诗体写的 the public recitation of metric, rhyming verse Example sentencesExamples - Also painfully absent is any discussion of the poetry, of the metric and formal characteristics of these texts, their historic or social changes, or their regional idiosyncrasies.
- Humor raises no such difficulty, for it is a purely formal device, more akin to the metric pattern of verse than to that of a trope.
- I opted for freedom, though on many occasions continuing to use familiar metric forms, but rejuvenated within the iridescent world of metaphor.
- In a previous lesson, Flint introduced the concept of metric feet (rhythmic modes), since she knew Nadan was studying poetry.
- There's something tired about sample-based music which still holds everything together with a metric beat, especially a generic ‘hip hop’ beat.
- All metric translations strictly follow the original Sanskrit verse format.
- He was interested in sonority, metric freedom, and rhythmic force.
noun ˈmɛtrɪkˈmɛtrɪk The metre of a poem. 诗韵 Example sentencesExamples - Justice's most obvious technical accomplishments involved not metrics but stanzaic forms and repetition.
- This feature was reflected in the development of Anglo-Irish metrics and was first felt through the rhythms of folksongs.
- But in any century, syllabic romance metrics engage the ear while Latin quantitative metrics engage the mind.
- Here, as in Harper's later volumes, musical rhythm replaces traditional metrics in the poetry without sacrificing craft.
- Wyatt has left us poems whose ‘flexibility and intricacy’ arises from their adherence to music rather than metrics, and Bunting seized on them as a means to invigorate his own lines.
- So the initial fourteen verses of To Saxham make plain when one considers them in light of more than metrics.
- The need for flexibility also interferes with simple metrics.
- Hopkins and Whitman appropriately shared a metric that suited their commitment to the natural.
- What Pound did in this text was to construct a Well-Tempered Prosody to exercise his mastery of metrics and diction.
OriginLate 15th century (denoting the branch of study dealing with metre): via Latin from Greek metrikos, from metron (see metre2). adjectiveˈmɛtrɪkˈmetrik 1Of or based on the meter as a unit of length; relating to the metric system. 米的；米制的，公制的 all measurements are given in metric form 所有的计量都是公制。 Example sentencesExamples - All this really means is that you are not using metric units.
- Most students will more immediately comprehend data given in the text because of the use of English rather than metric units.
- Give weights, measurements, and medication dosages in metric units and temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celsius degrees.
- Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.
- Our products are offered both in inch and metric sizes.
- Water was used as the basis for establishing the metric unit of mass, however, so it is easier to remember that a cubic centimeter of it has a mass of 1 gm.
- This is a rare case of a social scientific measure that has become so well known that the measure and the concept are almost as synonymous as temperature and the centigrade or Fahrenheit scales, or as length and the metric scale.
- This system contains most of the metric units you are used to, like meters and kilograms, but also includes units for many other physical and engineering properties.
- A button can also convert a number between Imperial and metric units, or look up a word in the dictionary, or fetch data from a database or Web site.
- The road is measured in miles, or in these EU directed metric times, kilometres and the journey in hours and minutes.
- Each color has its own wavelength, from dark red, which has the longest wavelength, to violet, which has the shortest wavelength, expressed in metric units of length.
- The tool accepts both inch and metric data, and computes parameters such as torque.
- The minister said the review will be part of a planned changeover to metric speed limit signage, from MPH to kilometers per hour.
- The first mission, Mars Climate Orbiter, didn't stop fast enough and crashed into Mars because engineers didn't convert between metric and imperial units properly.
- In the United States, the engineers work in imperial units, while in the rest of the world, metric units are primarily used.
- Most metric recipes were based on a weight unit of 25 grams - slightly less than an ounce - and a liquid measure of half a litre, which was slightly less than a pint.
- The metric version of these numbers is 26.5 liters per kilogram of beans
- Further, the news that the kilo is in such imminent danger of extinction will no doubt be seen as a vindication by Brits reluctant to sell their fruit and veg in metric units.
- He used the pyramids as support for a totally barmy argument against metric units.
- But metric units needed paper for calculations and hence they were not related to everyday life.
- 1.1 Relating to or using the metric system.
采用米制的，采用公制的 we should have gone metric years ago 我们几年前早就该采用公制了。
2Mathematics Physics
Relating to or denoting a metric. 〔数，物理〕度规的 Example sentencesExamples - Isoperi metric problems have been a source of important mathematical ideas and techniques since classical antiquity.
- He also conformed, perhaps more happily, to the decisions regarding the metric division of angles into 100 subdivisions.
- The relationship is precisely specified by the most profound equation of STR, usually called the metric equation (or line metric equation).
- Progress was being made in that gravitation was described for the first time by the metric tensor but still the theory was not right.
- It is possible to prove the above result without using metric properties (merely using order axioms), but it is not possible to drop the order axioms themselves.
nounˈmɛtrɪkˈmetrik 1technical A system or standard of measurement. 〈技〉计量体系，衡量标准 Example sentencesExamples - If the metric does not meet standards, it might indicate a problem with training, or it might signal a significant problem that will affect the wing's performance.
- That loss can be measured using standard metrics of compensating variation, equivalent variation, or consumer surplus using national demand functions.
- The two standard metrics for information retrieval are relevance and retrieval, i.e. what percentage of all the good stuff you get back.
- The metric should also measure the degree to which the compliance system adopted by a company is effective beyond merely the regulatory requirements specific to FDA.
- This means that worst-case measurements of system metrics are the only thing that matters to a hard real-time application, because these are the cases that cause a missed deadline.
- 1.1Mathematics Physics A binary function of a topological space which gives, for any two points of the space, a value equal to the distance between them, or to a value treated as analogous to distance for the purpose of analysis.
〔数，物理〕度规 Example sentencesExamples - The Robertson-Walker metric which Walker mentions in this quotation arose from joint work which he did with his colleague H P Robertson in the late 1930s.
- On page three of this text (the first full page after the preface) the Schwarzchild metric is written down.
- Weyl opened the way to the conformal differential geometry of Riemannian spaces in which one studies the properties of the spaces invariant under the so-called conformal transformation of the Riemannian metric.
- A Banach space is a real or complex normed vector space that is complete as a metric space under the metric induced by the norm.
- We conclude that a trend analysis of median comet metrics from repeated experiments at different stress levels is certainly an efficient way to statistically demonstrate a genotoxic effect.
2informal Metric units, or the metric system. 采用米制的，采用公制的 it's easier to work in metric 用米制单位更容易操作。 Example sentencesExamples - No change in speeding: The new signs to control speed in metric has had little effect on the traffic passing through the town centre.
- You try to think how much fabric you will need, translating shapes into metres, or in my case, yards which I then convert to metric.
- I found myself constantly doing the mental trick I did in Austraila, where in my head, I pre-scan every word I am about to say, looking for any mentions of numerical data that would have to be converted to metric.
- As Evening Press correspondents continue to mull over metric's efficiencies and deficiencies, we decided to look back at how the paper had covered the changeover from imperial in the Seventies.
- This increase may partly be due to the changeover to metric.
- The only sensible solution is to complete the changeover to metric, and as swiftly and cleanly as possible.
- I've yet to find one customer to ask for anything in metric, and you can ask any customer I serve and I do serve a lot of customers.
- Oh, I never learned metric… what's that in inches?
- Do you remember what happened as soon as we went metric?
- But for most people, metric is just an irritation which they overcome.
- He was also president of the York Chamber of Trade and as far back as the 1940s was keen to see Britain going metric, as he felt it would help the country in all ways in the long-term.
- Burt took a deep breath and launched into a lengthy explanation of the technicalities of the game, which seems to involve yards and other things I thought the EU made illegal when we all went metric.
- Earlier this year, the Repubic of Ireland successfully converted its signs to metric without any significant problems.
- There was one when Stella compared the initial feeling of losing her memory to what it was like to live in Canada around the time that it suddenly switched to metric.
- However, a spokesman for the Department for Transport said: ‘The derogation says we will go to metric when we choose a date.’
- We are not against metric, but against the enforcement of it in this country.
- They use metric here in Japan, though, so ‘centimeters towards meaningful democracy’ would be more correct, but in reality the change is closer to micrometric.
- And in line with already-announced changes, road signs displaying limits in miles-per-hour will go metric nationwide within the next 12 months.
- In or about July, 2005, you're going to go metric.
- Like the inhabitants of small villages in Surrey, I don't do metric.
OriginMid 19th century (as an adjective relating to length): from French métrique, from mètre (see metre). adjectiveˈmɛtrɪkˈmetrik Relating to or composed in a poetic meter. 诗韵的；用诗体写的 the public recitation of metric, rhyming verse Example sentencesExamples - There's something tired about sample-based music which still holds everything together with a metric beat, especially a generic ‘hip hop’ beat.
- I opted for freedom, though on many occasions continuing to use familiar metric forms, but rejuvenated within the iridescent world of metaphor.
- Also painfully absent is any discussion of the poetry, of the metric and formal characteristics of these texts, their historic or social changes, or their regional idiosyncrasies.
- Humor raises no such difficulty, for it is a purely formal device, more akin to the metric pattern of verse than to that of a trope.
- All metric translations strictly follow the original Sanskrit verse format.
- He was interested in sonority, metric freedom, and rhythmic force.
- In a previous lesson, Flint introduced the concept of metric feet (rhythmic modes), since she knew Nadan was studying poetry.
nounˈmɛtrɪkˈmetrik metricstreated as singular The meter of a poem. 诗韵 Example sentencesExamples - This feature was reflected in the development of Anglo-Irish metrics and was first felt through the rhythms of folksongs.
- Justice's most obvious technical accomplishments involved not metrics but stanzaic forms and repetition.
- So the initial fourteen verses of To Saxham make plain when one considers them in light of more than metrics.
- The need for flexibility also interferes with simple metrics.
- What Pound did in this text was to construct a Well-Tempered Prosody to exercise his mastery of metrics and diction.
- But in any century, syllabic romance metrics engage the ear while Latin quantitative metrics engage the mind.
- Here, as in Harper's later volumes, musical rhythm replaces traditional metrics in the poetry without sacrificing craft.
- Wyatt has left us poems whose ‘flexibility and intricacy’ arises from their adherence to music rather than metrics, and Bunting seized on them as a means to invigorate his own lines.
- Hopkins and Whitman appropriately shared a metric that suited their commitment to the natural.
OriginLate 15th century (denoting the branch of study dealing with meter): via Latin from Greek metrikos, from metron (see metre). |