So they have been using the mathematical definition and not geometric form of the word, thanks.
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ Mar 7, 2013 03:20:58 PM, [email protected] wrote: Hey, don't go verbing my nouns! Anyway, I thought that a verb used as a noun ending in ing is a gerund, like the building of the dam. Anyway, here are 2 sets of definitions from dictionary.com: Dictionary.com Unabridged >Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013. met·ric >1 [me-trik] Show IPA adjective >pertaining to the meter or to the metric system. Origin: >1860–65; met·ric >2 [me-trik] Show IPA adjective >1. pertaining to distance: metric geometry. >2. metrical. noun >3. Mathematics . a nonnegative real-valued function having properties >analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the >distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the >distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points >coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the >sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point. >Origin: >1750–60; >Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition >2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins > Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 >metric (ˈmɛtrɪk) >— adj >1. of or relating to the metre or metric system >2. maths denoting or relating to a set containing pairs of points for each of >which a non-negative real number ρ( x, y ) (the distance) can be defined, >satisfying specific conditions >— n >3. maths the function ρ( x, y ) satisfying the conditions of membership of >such a set (a metric space ) metrical or metric (ˈmɛtrɪk ə l, ˈmɛtrɪk) — adj >1. of or relating to measurement > 2. of or in poetic metre >metric or metric >— adj 'metrically or metric >— adv -metry >— n combining form >indicating the process or science of measuring: anthropometry ; geometry >[from Old French -metrie, from Latin -metria, from Greek, from metron >measure] >-metric >— adj combining form > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:55 PM, [email protected]> wrote: > >Re: [USMA:52457] Reuse of Word > > An interesting point. The venerable Webster's Unabridged Second Edition, which is still used by careful writers, does not list "metric" as a noun. The Third Edition does, so the word gained recognition after 1960. Accurate writers now use "SI Metric" to designate the Modern Metric System. > > The usage that really bugs me is the run-away usage of "vouns," that is, verbs used as nouns. We are commonly hearing now, except from the most careful broadcasters, "the sequester" instead of "the sequestration." We have long heard in recent decades about doing "an install" instead of "an installation." This confusing peculiarity of English works the other way too. For example, some would "mustard" their hot dog, using the noun as a verb. > > >
