Measurand vs Metric - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between measurand and metric is that measurand is a quantity intended to be measured 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.
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measurand English
Noun
( en noun)
A quantity intended to be measured.
(engineering) An object being measured.
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metric Adjective
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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": and , (2) "symmetry": , and (3) "triangle inequality": .
* 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.
Synonyms
* measure
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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