Metric
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Metric may refer to: Full metric tonne
- Metric system, a system of units developed in France in the 18th century
- * SI, or Système International, the international system of units since 1960, a subset of the former
- Metrics, a system of parameters that are measured
- Metrics (networking), set of properties of a communication path
- Metre (music), a measurement of beats in music
- Metre (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of a verse
- Metric (band), a Canadian indie rock band
- In mathematics:
- * Metric (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of distance in a metric space
- * Norm (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of size in a normed vector space
- * Metric tensor, a symmetric tensor of rank 2 used to measure distance
- Software metrics, a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications
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