metric unit

What does metric unit mean?

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

What is another word for metric unit?

Close synonyms include metric. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metric unit a common word?

metric unit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for metric unit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.