Metrics - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Accent, Beat, Cadence, Emphasis, Measure, Meter, Movement, Number, Numbers, Prosody, Rhythm, Scanning, Scansion, Stress

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A system of parameters or ways of quantitative assessment of a process that is to be measured, along with the processes to carry out such measurement. Metrics define what is to be measured. Metrics are usually specialized by the subject area, in which case they are valid only within certain domain and cannot be directly benchmarked or interpreted outside it. Generic metrics, however, can be aggregated across subject areas or business units of an enterprise.

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