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Print the properties of this metric description to the specified output `stream` in some single&hyphen;line human&hyphen;readable form, and return a reference to the modifiable `stream`&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balm&lowbar;metricdescription&period;h&gt;`

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std::ostream&
printDescription(std::ostream& stream) const;
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