Dictionary Definition
metrical adj
1 based on the meter as a standard of
measurement; "the metric system"; "metrical equivalents" [syn:
metric]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
metrical- relating to poetic meter
- having a regular rhythm
- of or pertaining to measurement
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Extensive Definition
Metric may refer to:
- Metric
system, a system of units developed in France in the 18th
century
- SI, or Système International, the international system of units since 1960, a subset of the former
- Metrics, a system of parameters that are measured
- Metrics (networking), set of properties of a communication path
- Metre (music), a measurement of beats in music
- Metre (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of a verse
- Metric (band), a Canadian indie rock band
- In mathematics:
- Metric (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of distance in a metric space
- Norm (mathematics), an abstraction of the notion of size in a normed vector space
- Metric tensor, a symmetric tensor of rank 2 used to measure distance
- Software metrics, a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications
metrical in Danish: Metrik
metrical in German: Metrik
metrical in Modern Greek (1453-): Μετρική
metrical in Esperanto: Metriko
metrical in French: Métrique
metrical in Dutch: Metriek
metrical in Polish: Metryka
metrical in Russian: Метрика
metrical in Slovak: Metrika
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
antispastic, approximative, beating, cadenced, cadent, chorographic, dactylic, estimative, hypsographic, iambic, in numbers, in rhythm,
measured, measuring, mensural, mensurational, mensurative, metric, numerative, oceanographic, prosodic, pulsating, pulsative, pulsatory, pulsing, pyrrhic, quantitative, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, throbbing, topographic, trochaic, valuational, valuative