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adjective

Metric adj.

Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.

Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.

Metric analysis (Chem.), analysis by volume; volumetric analysis.

Metric system, See metric system in the vocabulary.

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Etymology of 'Metric'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Metric" Quotes from Famous Books

... continue her national existence. She must import from other countries certain products necessary to her existence. For example, there is wool, of which she was obliged to import 1,888,481 metric quintals in order to manufacture her sixteen thousand grades of woolen fabrics. There is copper, of which Germany imported 250,000 tons in 1913 (200,000 tons came from America), in order to sell the merchandise she finds has a good market in foreign countries. Considering all Germany's exports ...

— Fighting France • Stephane Lauzanne

... Above, the author seems to be using the European decimal point ",", in the metric measurements, and the American decimal point ...

— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous

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