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adapted
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adjective
(= altered)
changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
seeds precisely adapted to the area
instructions altered to suit the children's different ages
metric
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adjective
(= metrical)
based on the meter as a standard of measurement
the metric system
metrical equivalents
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noun
(= system of measurement)
a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
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noun
(= metric unit)
a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
convert all the measurements to metric units
it is easier to work in metric
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noun
(= metric function)
a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
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adjective
(= measured)
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