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How to pronounce “metric”

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Pronunciation guide for metric

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of metric with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The Tyranny of the MeritocracyAnd you make good points about changing the metric,
Definition summary: Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.

Example 1 of 8

The Tyranny of the Meritocracy

And you make good points about changing the 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.
[Noun]
A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
(mathematical analysis) A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function
d
{\displaystyle d}
on
M
×
M
{\displaystyle M\times M}
, where
M
{\displaystyle M}
is a set, is called a metric if (1)
d
(
x
,
y
)
=
0
{\displaystyle d(x,y)=0}
if and only if
x
=
y
{\displaystyle x=y}
, (2)
d
(
x
,
y
)
=
d
(
y
,
x
)
{\displaystyle d(x,y)=d(y,x)}
for all pairs
(
x
,
y
)
{\displaystyle (x,y)}
, and (3)
d
{\displaystyle d}
obeys the triangle inequality.
(mathematics) A metric tensor.
Abbreviation of metric system.
[Verb]
(transitive, aerospace, systems engineering) To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

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