physics vs metric

physics and metric both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
physics	Yes	No	No	No
metric	Yes	Yes	No	No

physics (noun)	metric (noun)
the science of matter and energy and their interactions	a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
the physical properties, phenomena, and laws of something	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

physics (adjective)	metric (adjective)
	based on the meter as a standard of measurement
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