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1. The study of poetic meter and the art of versification
   - prosody

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
   - 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
   - metric function

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

Encyclopedia: Metrics