metric

a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

the rhythmic arrangement of syllables

a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)

“convert all the measurements to metric units”

based on the meter as a standard of measurement

“the metric system”