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-metry
a combining form with the meaning “the process of measuring” that specified by the initial element.
anthropometry; chronometry.
-metry
combining form
indicating the process or science of measuring
anthropometry
geometry
Other 51Թ Forms
- -metric combining form
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of -metry1
Example Sentences
When Ayob Metry and Nadia Gomaa worked together in the prepared foods department at Whole Foods in Ashburn, they would regularly challenge each other to see who could make the best koshary, that carb-heavy bowl of elbow pasta, vermicelli, black lentils, white rice, chickpeas and fried onions somehow held together with a slow-cooked tomato sauce with the faintest reverberations of garlic and cumin.
Sometimes Metry’s version won, sometimes Gomaa’s.
As Metry told me one evening on the phone: “We are a kingdom. There is not a king. It’s not only me. It’s not only her. It’s all of us.”
Metry and Gomaa make their own from freshly toasted sesame seeds that are blended with cumin, oil and lemon juice.
Metry and Gomaa come from different parts of Egypt.
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When To Use
The combining form -metry is used like a suffix meaning “the process of measuring.” It is often used in scientific terms.The form -metry comes from Greek -metria, meaning “action or process of measuring.” Find out how -metria is related to diameter, isometric, and metronome at our entries for these words.What are variants of -metry?While -metry doesn't have any variants, it's related to the forms -metric, -metrics, and -meter. Want to know more? Read our 51Թs That Use articles for these forms.
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