Meaning

3 senses

  1. (uncountable)The study of metrical verse.

  2. (uncountable)The statistical analysis of data sets or big data.

  3. (uncountable)The theory of measurement.

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  • the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

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  • the study of poetic meter and the art of versification:prosody

Word family

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Derivedagrimetricsaquametricsbibliometricsbiometricscartometricscephalometricschemometricsdialectometricsenvironmetricsimmunometricsinformetricsmorphometricsneurometricspatentometricspharmacometricspsychometricspsychrometricsstereometricsultrametricsvolumetricswebometrics

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