metrics

UK/ˈmɛt.ɹɪks/US/ˈmɛt.ɹɪks/

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Metrics are the numbers chosen to show how things are going. Report the metrics.

What gets measured gets managed, and what cannot be measured quietly stops mattering. Metrics chosen because they are easy to collect are the most dangerous kind.

Definitions of metrics

1nounmetricsThe numbers chosen to show how things are going.B2
“The metrics all went up and the customers all left.”

metrics is measures.

Practised in Marketing & Advertising

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metrics in the wild

In many instances, such as for hyperbolic space and projective space, Riemannian metrics are more naturally defined or constructed using the intrinsic point of view.
Riemannian manifold
The Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics opened a wide debate on the use and transparency of metrics.
Bibliometrics
The standard is divided into four parts: quality model external metrics internal metrics quality in use metrics.
ISO/IEC 9126
Citation-like measures are also used in other fields that do ranking, such as Google's PageRank algorithm, software metrics, college and university rankings, and business performance indicators.
Citation impact
Routing metrics are configuration values used by a router to make routing decisions.
Metrics (networking)

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