metric
adjective /ˈmetrɪk/
  /ˈmetrɪk/
 - based on the metric system
- metric units/measurements/sizes
 - British currency went metric in 1971.
 
 - made or measured using the metric system
- These screws are metric.
 
 - (also metrical)connected with the rhythm of a poem, produced by the arrangement of stress on the syllables in each line
 
Word Originmid 19th cent. (as an adjective relating to length): from French métrique, from mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’.