Metric

Metric or metrical may refer to:

• Metric system, an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement
• Metric (unit), a measure for quantitatively assessing, controlling or selecting a person, process, event, or institution

Mathematics

• Metric (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of distance in a metric space
• Metric tensor, in differential geometry, the distance structure on a manifold

Physics

• Metric tensor (general relativity), the fundamental object of study in general relativity similar to the gravitational field in Newtonian physics
• Metric system, an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement
• International System of Units, or Système International (SI), also known as "metric system"
• METRIC, a model that uses Landsat satellite data to compute and map evapotranspiration (ET) in climatology/meteorology

Computer science

• Metrics (networking), set of properties of a communication path
• Router metrics, used by a router to make routing decisions
• Software metric, a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications
• Reuse metrics, a quantitative indicator of an attribute for software reuse and reusability

Other uses

• Alex Metric (born 1984), British musician, DJ and producer
• Font metrics, a group of properties describing a font
• Metric (band), a Canadian indie rock band
• Performance metric, a measure of an organization's activities and performance
• Search engine optimization metrics, numeric conclusion on a website's organic search potential

See also

• Meter (disambiguation)
• Metrecal, a diet drink introduced in the 1960s
• Metric conversion (disambiguation)
• Metric dimension (disambiguation)
• Metric gauge (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Metric