metric

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.

   “But the red planet has been a graveyard for Russian, European and American missions, including an embarrassing 1999 NASA fail caused when a computer, running on metric numbers, and engineers, dealing in nonmetric numbers, got their signals crossed.”

2. sıfat Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
3. sıfat Of or relating to distance.
4. isim A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).

   “What metric should be used for performance evaluation?”

5. isim A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M×M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y)=d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.

   “As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from a Green function.”

6. isim A metric tensor.
7. isim Abbreviation of metric system.
8. fiil To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

   “We need to metric the status of software documentation.”