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a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -meter (barometric) or -metry (geometric).

Origin:
< Greek -metrikos; see meter2, -metry, -ic
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-metric is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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-metry
 
n combining form
indicating the process or science of measuring: anthropometry; geometry
 
[from Old French -metrie, from Latin -metria, from Greek, from metron measure]
 
-metric
 
adj combining form

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