metric
measure for quantitatively assessing an attribute of a person, process, event, institution or system
Burn rate (chemistry)
measure of the linear combustion rate of a substance
economic activity rate
measurement of employment
write endurance
measure of the amount of data that can be written to a memory or storage device before it wears out
body count
number of people killed in a particular event
Mean time between outages
mean time between equipment failures that result in loss of system continuity or unacceptable degradation
performance metric
measure of an organization's activities and performance
forecast attainment
statistical forecasting metric
Reliability index
assessment of power system reliability
worst-case execution time
maximum length of time a computed task could take to execute
speedup
process for increasing the performance between two systems solving the same problem
virtual water
hidden flow of water if food or other commodities are traded from one place to another; e.g. it takes 1340 m³ of water on average to produce 1000 kg of wheat
productivity
average measure of the efficiency of production
figure of merit
quantity used to characterize performance
product lifetime
time span from when a product is sold to when it is discarded
Input and output
measure of food and fluids that enter and exit the body
Memory footprint
the amount of memory a computer program uses
Team effectiveness
a team's ability to accomplish their goals or objectives
evaluation measures
assess how well the search results satisfied the user's query intent, for an information retrieval system
Bosch blackening number
measure for assessing the smoke density of diesel engine exhaust gases
follower
individual account that follows another on social media
mean time between failures
predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of a system during operation
sheer
shipbuilding deck curvature measurement
transistor count
number of transistors in an electronic device
risk appetite
the level of risk that an organization or individual is prepared to accept in pursuit of objectives, before action is deemed necessary to reduce the risk
Mean reciprocal rank
search quality measure in information retrieval
centrality
any measure of a node's level of connectedness within a mathematical graph
biochemical oxygen demand
oxygen needed to remove organics from water
Net Promoter Score
loyalty measure between -100 and 100
climate shadow
concept in climate impact analysis
markup
ratio of the cost of a good or service and its selling price
Food miles
distance food is transported from production to consumption
color difference
metric for difference between two colors
sludge volume index
process control parameter used to describe the settling characteristics of sludge in the aeration tank of an activated sludge process
state of health
figure of merit of the condition of a battery, cell, or a battery pack, compared to its design conditions
confirmed line item performance
diagnostic metric in supply chain delivery
state of charge
value of the charge level of an energy storage system relative to its capacity
wetting current
minimum electric current needed through a contact to break through the surface film resistance
acidity function
measure of acidity of a solvent system
space complexity
amount of memory space that an algorithm uses as a function of the input's size
efficiency
quality measure of a statistical method
lightness
property of a color
tension
pulling power of an engine or animal
Roche limit
astronomical concept
run time
program lifecycle phase, time during which a program is running (executing)
BLEU
algorithm for evaluating the quality of machine-translated text