measure
Noun
(en noun )
The quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.
An (unspecified) quantity or capacity.
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* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England’s rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban” (in ”The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]
- It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson’s team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
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The precise designated distance between two objects or points.
The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated.
- The tailor took my measure for a coat.
* Bible, Job xi. 9
- The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
The act of measuring.
- (Shakespeare)
A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition.
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(music) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.
(dancing) A regulated movement, especially in a slow and stately dance, corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed.
(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- a poem in iambic measure
A rule, ruler or measuring stick.
A tactic, strategy or piece of legislation.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Obama goes troll-hunting
, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
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(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
(arithmetic, dated) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor.
- the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
(geology) A bed or stratum.
- coal measures”’; lead ”’measures
An indicator; something used to assess some property.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City
, passage=City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.}}
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Synonyms
* (musical designation) bar
* (precise designated distance) metric
Hyponyms
* (mathematics) positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, , complete measure, Lebesgue measure
Verb
(measur)
To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Towards the end of poverty
, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
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To estimate the unit size of something.
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To judge, value, or appraise.
* (John Milton)
- Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?
To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
* (William Shakespeare)
- A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
To adjust by a rule or standard.
* Jeremy Taylor
- To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.
To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out” or ”off .
* Bible, Matthew vii. 2
- With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
* Addison
- That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.
Derived terms
* measurement
* measure stick
* measure theory
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metric
Adjective
(–)
of or relating to the metric system of measurement
(music) of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
(mathematics, physics) Of or relating to distance
Derived terms
* metric carat
* metric level
* metric system
* metric space
* metric structure
* contrametric
* extrametric
* intrametric
* metrical
Noun
(en noun )
A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in Software Engineering)
* 2011 , April 10, Financial Times
- As for the large number of official statements that Spain is safe, I think they are merely a metric of the complacency that has characterised the European crisis from the start.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Boundary problems
, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric , gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- What metric should be used for performance evaluation?
- What are the most important metrics to track for your business?
- It’s the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance.
- ”How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.
- There is a lack of standard metrics .
(mathematics) A measurement of the “distance” between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d”(”x”,”y”) between points ”x” and ”y satisfying the following properties: (1) “positive definiteness”:
d(x,y) ge 0
and
d(x,y) = 0 mbox{ iff } x=y
, (2) “symmetry”:
d(x,y) = d(y,x)
, and (3) “triangle inequality”:
d(x,y) le d(x,z) + d(z,y)
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* 2014 , Wikipedia,
- In mathematics, a metric‘ or distance function is a function that defines a distance between elements of a set. A set with a ‘ metric is called a metric space.
Hyponyms
* Euclidean metric
* Hausdorff metric
* uniform metric
* ultrametric
Derived terms
* landscape metrics
* performance metric
* success metric
Verb
To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
- we need to metric the status of software documentation
- we need to metric the verification of requirements
- we need to metric the system failures
- the project manager is metricking the closure of the action items
- customer satisfaction was metricked by the marketing department
See also
* meter
* avoirdupois
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