metric vs temperature scale

temperature scale vs metric

metric and temperature scale both are nouns.

metric is an adjective but temperature scale is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
metric	Yes	Yes	No	No
temperature scale	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, temperature scale is a hyponym of metric; that is, temperature scale is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than metric:

metric: a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
temperature scale: a system of measuring temperature

Other hyponyms of metric include criterion, measure, standard, touchstone, system of weights and measures, point system, information measure, utility, Brix scale, circular measure, board measure, Beaufort scale, system of weights, weight, monetary aggregate.

metric (noun)	temperature scale (noun)
a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic	a system of measuring temperature
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

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

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