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metrics

noun as in prosody

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“You are applying Western metrics to someone who is not using that metric against you,” referring to ISIS, Bolger said.

This midterm election has been pretty terrible measured by the metrics that independent/swing voters care about.

They believe in traditional metrics of talent, and are willing to pay for those who measure up.

To put it mildly, Obama has come up short on each of these metrics.

When they were invented, we had no economic metrics, and no reliable way to gauge what was going on.

One of the novelties included in our experiments was the teaching of metrics, hitherto reserved for high schools.

By far the greater part of Gascoigne's treatise is devoted to metrics and to style.

Several terms used in this book have also been taken from German metrics.

He had to go to the Chansons des rues et des bois to enjoy the perfect acrobatics of his metrics.

The second book, Of Proportion, 70 pages, is a treatise on metrics.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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