unit vs metric

unit and metric both are nouns.

unit is not an adjective while metric is an adjective.

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

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

unit: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
metric: a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)

Other hyponyms of unit include measuring block, measuring unit, denier, diopter, dioptre, carat, karat, kt, absorption unit, acceleration unit, angular unit, area unit, square measure, capacity measure, capacity unit, cubage unit, cubature unit, cubic content unit, cubic measure, displacement unit, volume unit, computer memory unit, electromagnetic unit, emu, explosive unit, force unit, linear measure, linear unit, metric unit, miles per gallon, monetary unit, megaflop, MFLOP, million floating point operations per second, teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second, million instructions per second, MIPS, pain unit, pressure unit, printing unit, sound unit, telephone unit, temperature unit, weight, weight unit, mass unit, unit of viscosity, energy unit, heat unit, work unit, langley, Brinell number, point, bit, electrostatic unit, tkm, tonne-kilometer, tonne-kilometre, man-month, machine-hour, L/100 km, liters per hundred kilometers, litres per hundred kilometres, ban, dit, Hart, hartley, deciban, billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS, gigaflop, EFLOPS, exaflop, zettaflop, ZFLOPS, YFLOPS, yottaflop, petaflop, PFLOPS, credit point, ECTS-credit point, ECTS credit.

unit (noun)	metric (noun)
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity	a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
a single undivided whole	a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
an organization regarded as part of a larger social group	a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole

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

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