Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a condition in which blood-pressure at rest is higher than the body's needs. Because hypertension lacks overt symptoms, high blood pressure can go unnoticed for years.
metric (Noun). A measurement of the distance between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) positive definiteness: and, (2) symmetry: , and (3) triangle inequality: . metric (Verb).
metrics - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification. prosody. poetics - study of poetic works. acatalectic - (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables. Alexandrine - (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet.