‘all measurements are given in _metric_ form’

‘Our modern _metric_ units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.’

‘the public recitation of _metric_ , rhyming verse’

‘Humor raises no such difficulty, for it is a purely formal device, more akin to the _metric_ pattern of verse than to that of a trope.’

‘the _metric_ equation of Minkowski space–time’

‘It is possible to prove the above result without using _metric_ properties (merely using order axioms), but it is not possible to drop the order axioms themselves.’

‘we should have gone _metric_ years ago’

‘No doubt, the combination of money and smart metrics is tough to beat.’

‘Finally, abandoning value metrics is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.’

‘the external structure of space–time is described by the Schwarzschild _metric_ ’

‘A Banach space is a real or complex normed vector space that is complete as a _metric_ space under the _metric_ induced by the norm.’

‘the levels of branching are arbitrary and no precise _metric_ is applied to distance between the nodes’

‘That loss can be measured using standard metrics of compensating variation, equivalent variation, or consumer surplus using national demand functions.’

‘Hopkins and Whitman appropriately shared a _metric_ that suited their commitment to the natural.’

‘The need for flexibility also interferes with simple metrics.’

‘it's easier to work in _metric_ ’

‘Oh, I never learned _metric_ … what's that in inches?’