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Return a reference to the modifiable address of the _held_ non&hyphen;modifiable `MetricDescription`, which defines the value of this metric id&period;

== Synopsis

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

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xref:BloombergLP/balm/MetricDescription.adoc[MetricDescription] const*&
description();
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