Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metrics

1 sense of metrics

Sense 1
prosody, metrics -- (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)
       => poetics -- (study of poetic works)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metric

3 senses of metric

Sense 1
metric function, metric -- (a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them)
       => function, mathematical function, single-valued function, map, mapping -- ((mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function))

Sense 2
metric unit, metric -- (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")
       => unit of measurement, unit -- (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume")

Sense 3
system of measurement, metric -- (a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic)
       => measure, quantity, amount -- (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)