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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun metrics has 1 sense
- metrics(n = noun.cognition) prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification; Array is a kind of poetics
THESAURUS
metrics
Stabreim, accent, accentuation, alliterative meter, beat, cadence, emphasis, ictus, level of stress, lilt, measure, meter, metrical pattern, movement, number, numbers, primary stress, prosodic pattern, prosodics, prosody, quantitative meter, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, scanning, scansion, secondary stress, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, swing, syllabic meter, tertiary stress, vers libre, versification, weak stress
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