> The manuscript is two hundred and twenty-five millimetres tall, a hundred and sixty wide, and five centimetres thick.
"met_re_s" in an American publication?
In this case, it's obviously just the New Yorker spelling out words and mixing scales just to increase word count/diversity to give the article a more mysterious pseudo-intellectual feel, as is the style of the magazine. The New Yorker spins articles through a thesaurus before publication.
See also
> ineluctable
Considering that the venerated New Yorker(!) is blogspamming a Reddit(!) thread, they needed to do something to distinguish themselves from BuzzFeed.