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Example sentences for: metric

How can you use “metric” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The array sensitivity is useful as a quality-control metric for individual hybridizations and is also used to adjust signals from low-level transcripts.
The proposed implementation leads to a distance metric that exactly determines similarity length between sequences.
This metric compares the product's actual reliability to a growth plan and ultimately to the overall reliability goal.
An additional metric of specificity on the Codelink bioarrays is the use of 54 negative control bacterial probes spotted in 4X redundancy, which were designed and empirically shown not to cross hybridize to human transcripts [ 6 ] . While the all DAP condition resulted in an increase in the hybridization intensity for three of the negative control probes, the 1:1 DAP:A condition produced lower background signals similar to those of the unmodified control (data not shown).
(This is not the only simple mistake leading to a big one in the news today: the papers all cover NASA's admission that the reason the Mars Orbiter was lost last week was that some engineers did calculations for the mission using pounds and feet, while others used the metric system.)