With singular agreement. Originally: anthropometry; spec. = bertillonage, n. In later use chiefly: the use of anthropometric measurements in the…

The system of identification of criminals by anthropometric measurements, finger-prints, etc., invented by Bertillon.

Bertillon system = bertillonage, n. So Bertillon measurement.

Bertillon system = bertillonage, n. So Bertillon measurement.

(a) now historical, a triangular piece of pink cloth sewn on to clothing to identify homosexual men in Nazi concentration camps; (b) used as a…

(a) Banking a series of characters printed in magnetic ink at the bottom of a cheque, etc., to facilitate sorting; (b) Computing data added to or…

(a) an evaluation of the inheritance pattern of a genetic disorder (rare); (b) a set of genetic markers or characteristics derived from an…

a set of genetic characteristics derived from, and typically unique to, an individual organism, esp. when used for identification; cf. genetic profile…

an electronic signature, esp. one generated and verified by public key encryption.

A confidential, usually 4-digit, number allocated to an individual by a bank, etc., and used for the validation of electronic transactions. Also…

= main sense.

selection for scrutiny by law enforcement based on race or ethnicity rather than on behavioural or evidentiary criteria (cf. offender profiling n. at…