1. The study of poetic meter and the art of versification
   "He taught a course on metrics, analysing the rhythmic patterns in Shakespeare's sonnets";
   - prosody
    
2. A set of measurements used to quantify and assess performance or progress
   "The company tracks various metrics to measure customer satisfaction"

1. A decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
   "convert all the measurements to metric units"; "it is easier to work in metric";
   - metric unit
    
2. A system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
   "The International System of Units (SI) is a widely used metric";
   - system of measurement
    
3. (physics) a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
   "The metric function was used to calculate distances in curved space-time";
   - metric function

Type of: amount, function, map, mapping, mathematical function, measure, poetics, quantity, single-valued function, unit, unit of measurement

Encyclopedia: Metrics