Metric

Tools designed to facilitate decision-making and improve performance and accountability through collection, analysis, and reporting of relevant performance-related data.

(1) quantitative measure of the degree to which a system, component, or process possesses a given attribute; (2) defined measurement method and the measurement scale; c.f., measure in this section above

defined measurement method and measurement scale

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

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

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