Comparison vs Metric - What's the difference?
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The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
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, title= An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.
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* (1800-1859)
*:As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them.
*(Richard Chenevix Trench) (1807-1886)
*:The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison .
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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve."
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
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(label) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest .
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
*(Bible), (w) iv. 30
*:Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
(label) A simile.
(label) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
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
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
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (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": and , (2) "symmetry": , and (3) "triangle inequality": .
* 2014 , Wikipedia,
To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
As nouns the difference between comparison and metric
is that comparison is the act of comparing or the state or process of being compared while metric is a measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in software engineering).As an adjective metric is
of or relating to the metric system of measurement.As a verb metric is
to measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.comparison
English
Noun
(en noun)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
metric
English
(wikipedia metric)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* metric carat * metric level * metric system * metric space * metric structure * contrametric * extrametric * intrametric * metricalNoun
(en noun)- 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.
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 .
- 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.
Synonyms
* measureHyponyms
* Euclidean metric * Hausdorff metric * uniform metric * ultrametricDerived terms
* landscape metrics * performance metric * success metricVerb
- 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