Metric

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Metric(s) may refer to:

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the metric system of measurement
- International System of Units, or Système International (SI), the modern form of the metric system
- Metric ton, a measurement of mass equal to 1,000 kg
an analytical measurement intended to quantify the state of a system.
- Metrics (networking), set of properties of a communication path
- Font metrics, a group of properties describing a font
- Router metrics, used by a router to make routing decisions
- Software metrics, 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
- Performance metrics, a measure of an organization's activities and performance.
  - Operational metrics are used in manufacturing and distribution to measure efficiency and effectiveness.
METRIC a computer model (Mapping EvapoTranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration) that uses Landsat satellite data to compute and map evapotranspiration (ET).

Metric (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of distance in a metric space
- Metric tensor, in mathematics, a symmetric rank-2 tensor, used to measure length and angle
- Schwarzschild metric, a description of the geometry around a special type of black hole