Metric vs Parameter - What's the difference?
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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
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
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, 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": .
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To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
(mathematics, physics) A variable kept constant during an experiment, calculation or similar.
(programming) An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter) .
(programming) An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter) .
A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
(geometry) In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
(crystallography) The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
(crystallography) The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
In mathematics physics terms the difference between metric and parameter
is that metric is of or relating to distance while parameter is a variable kept constant during an experiment, calculation or similar.As nouns the difference between metric and parameter
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 parameter is a variable kept constant during an experiment, calculation or similar.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
(-)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
See also
* meter * avoirdupoisExternal links
* *parameter
English
Alternative forms
* parametreNoun
(en noun)- Roughly, a tuple of arguments could be thought of as a vector, whereas a tuple of parameters''' could be thought of as a covector (i.e., linear functional). When a function is called, a '''parameter tuple becomes "bound" to an argument tuple, allowing the function instance itself to be computed to yield a return value. This would be roughly analogous to applying a covector to a vector (by taking their dot product (or, rather, matrix-product of row vector and column vector)) to obtain a scalar.
- The parameter of the principal axis of a conic section is called the latus rectum.
