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• n  the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
• n  a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
• n  a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
• n  a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

• The Administration has set out a short list of metrics to gauge progress in its troubled ally.
• It brought real, tangible metrics to the advertising and search businesses.
• McCain has spoken about other metrics, btw.

• prosody
• metric function
• metric
• metric unit
• system of measurement

News & Articles

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• With Demographics, What's Too Young, Too Old, And Just Right For Growth?
  A very important set of factors for growth and stability involves the age of the population. Three metrics stand out:
  June 20, 2013 - Forbes
• Health Metrics Systems (HMS) Collaborates With HighCloud Security, Achieves HIPAA-Compliant and Elastic Cloud ...
  HighCloud Security, a leader in cloud encryption and key management software, today announced that Health Metrics Systems, Inc. is leveraging HighCloud software to secure HMS' data within a public cloud. ...
  June 19, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• SumAll Adds Email Marketing Metrics to its integrated Data Visualization Platform
  NEW YORK, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SumAll, the leading source of big data business intelligence for fast-growing businesses, today announced the addition of Email Marketing Metrics to its  connected ...
  June 18, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Meg Whitman in Forbes
  We are disappointed - obviously - by the write-down, and we're behind in terms of some financial metrics we had originally anticipated,Whitman told The Associated Press in a phone interview. "But the steps we took ...... and moving to new...
• Jim Balsillie in ReportonBusiness.com
  RIM's second quarter results were exceptionally strong on all metrics including revenue, subscriber account additions and net income,RIM co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie said in a statement. "This growth is fueled by the depth of the...
• Doug Parker in National Post (registration) (blog)
  US Airways Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Doug Parker said, "Our team hit this one out of the park. In a highly competitive and unpredictable environment, achieving a first place finish in all three major DOT metrics is a rare honor for any...