Read full poem →In the Hymn of Creation (v.160-209) where ye occurs fourteen times, the
emphasis and the metric stress six times out of seven coincide, and the
pronoun is spelt yee; where it is unemphatic, and in an unstressed
Dictionary Entry
A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
In a Sentence
“How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.”
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Common Phrases
tons metricsystem metricton metric. metricunits metrictonnes metricmetric millionmetric per
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Poetry examples for “metric”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But Gavin Bone fairly characterized his metric as
‘barbarous and strange’, and ‘he will not budge a