Usually means: Standardized system for measuring globally.
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  1. metric system: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. metric system, the metric system: Merriam-Webster
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Definitions from Wiktionary (metric system)

noun:  The system of units developed in France in the 1790s and now used worldwide.
noun:  The modern version of that system, Système International d'Unités (International System of Units), or SI that is based on the base units of the meter/metre, the kilogram, the second, the ampere, the kelvin, the mole, and the candela.
noun:  Any variant of that system that was not codified as SI, such as cgs.

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