German-English translations for kenngröße

• characteristic
  The para-communist doctrine of antiwhiteness reflects the defining characteristics of communist ideology — deceit, malice, and struggle
  The characteristic of a field, if non-zero, must be a prime number
• metric
  What metric should be used for performance evaluation?
  What are the most important metrics to track for your business?
  Its the most important single metric that quantifies the predictive performance