Metrics
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
Matrix
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The womb. The concept of an enclosure is common to many of the other uses of matrix.The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.Part of the mitochondrion.The medium in which bacteria are cultured.A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.A two-dimensional array.A table of data.A geological matrix, the outer material of a rock consisting of larger grains embedded in a material consisting of smaller ones.The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.The environment from which a given sample is taken.