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Metric vs Method - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between metric and method

is that metric is of or relating to the meter of a piece of music while method is marijuana.

As nouns the difference between metric and method

is that metric is a measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in Software Engineering while method is a process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process).

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.

metric

English

(wikipedia 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) .
  • * 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

    method

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method , and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
  • A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.
  • (programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
  • (slang) Marijuana.
  • Derived terms

    (A process by which a task is completed) * comparative method * historical method * methodical * methodology * scholarly method * scientific method * Socratic method * philosophical method * convenience method * virtual method