Metric vs. Metre — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.

The metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure", and cognate with Sanskrit mita, meaning "measured") is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m.

(music) Of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.

Variant of meter1.

Of or relating to distance.

Variant of meter2.

A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).

The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 127 (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.

(mathematics) A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": $d(x,y)\; \backslash ge\; 0$, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": $d(x,y)\; =\; 0\; \backslash mbox\{\; iff\; \}\; x=y$, (3) "symmetry": $d(x,y)\; =\; d(y,x)$, and (4) "triangle inequality": $d(x,y)\; \backslash le\; d(x,z)\; +\; d(z,y)$.

The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.

(mathematics) A metric tensor.

Alternative spelling of meter

Abbreviation of metric system

To put into metrical form.

To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.

See Meter.

Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.

The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

A function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time

A decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds);

A system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

Based on the meter as a standard of measurement;

The rhythmic arrangement of syllables