How to say "metric" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- nounThe katakana loanword, matching English 'metric' directly: a measurable quantity or standard used to evaluate or compare things. For the mathematical sense of a metric as a distance function, 計量 is the corresponding term.
- 計量けいりょうnounCovers 'metric' in its mathematical sense: a distance function defining distances between points. For 'metric' meaning an evaluation figure or measurable indicator, メトリック is the word to use.
「メトリック」 is the katakana loanword covering 'metric' broadly, while 計量 is the term for the mathematical sense of a metric as a distance function.
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