adj. of or relating to the metric system of measurementadj. of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.adj. Of or relating to distancen. A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in Software Engineering)n. A 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) "positive definiteness": and , (2) "symmetry": , and (3) "triangle inequality": .v. To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.