information measure vs metric

metric vs information measure

information measure and metric both are nouns.

information measure is not an adjective while metric is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
information measure	Yes	No	No	No
metric	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, metric is a hypernym of information measure; that is, metric is a word with a broader meaning than information measure:

information measure: a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information
metric: a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

Other hypernyms of information measure include system of measurement.

information measure (noun)	metric (noun)
a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information	a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
	a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
	a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them

information measure (adjective)	metric (adjective)
	based on the meter as a standard of measurement
	the rhythmic arrangement of syllables

Difference between information measure and metric

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