Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
📊 Key indicators ❤️ Essential organs
vitals

vitals

74 4.1
Important measurements that show how well a system or project is working
  • noun
  • /ˈvaɪtəlz/
  • Jargon
: indicadores clave
  • Before making a decision, we reviewed the vitals including budget and performance metrics.

Examples

  • We feel the need to make some clarifications in light of a blog post published on Gambit, a publication found at TheBestofNewOrleans.com, concerning one of many performance measurements found in our report City Vitals 2.0.

    Blog text (29)

  • The team analyzed several key vitals to determine the project's overall success.

  • The quarterly report included all the necessary vitals that executives needed to evaluate the company's health.

Antonyms

irrelevance
10 5.3

Something not related to the main topic

insignificance
6 5.8

A state of not being important or having little effect

Surface Forms

vitals singular
vitals plural

Morphology

vitals = vital (transparent) = vital + s

Formed by the adjective 'vital' plus plural '-s' and used metaphorically to mean 'essential measurements'; the extension to organizational metrics is directly inferable from 'vital' = 'essential'.

Etymology

The word vitals comes from the Latin word vita 'life', and a helpful image is a doctor's vitals that show a person's health, so the vitals of a company or system are its most important measures of health.