biometricsn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈmɛtrɪks/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈmɛtrɪks/ 1. With singular agreement. = biometry n. 2.
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micrography1658
micrology1848
biostatics1849
electrobiology1849
biotechnics1852
human biology1860
phylogeny1872
developmental biology1877
psychobiology1879
microbiology1880
biokinetics1883
bacteriology1884
geratology1884
thremmatology1888
cell biology1889
biophysics1892
biomechanics1899
pathobiology1900
biometry1901
biometrics1902
metabiology1906
bioenergetics1907
radiobiology1919
biomedicine1922
photobiology1923
virology1935
sociobiology1946
space biology1955
prebiology1963
chronobiology1969
glycobiology1988
1902 Man 2 30 Since Mr. Galton calls the devotees of this science biometricians, why not call the science itself Biometrics on the analogy of mathematics, statistics, &c.?
1923 W. M. Feldman Biomath. xxi. 327 Biometrics is the application of modern statistical methods to the measurements of biological (variable) objects.
1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans ii. 61 The work of Karl Pearson and his school in the study of statistical methods as applied to biological and anthropological problems (‘Biometrics’).
1979 Computers & Educ. 3 353 The second year undergraduate course in Quantitative Genetics and Biometrics..has traditionally been taught jointly by a geneticist and a biometrician.
2. With singular or plural agreement. The use of unique physical characteristics (fingerprints, iris pattern, etc.) to identify individuals, typically for the purposes of security. Also (with plural agreement): the physical characteristics that can be so used.
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1982 Amer. Banker 15 Mar. 12/3 Scientists who are developing ways to measure these unique biological traits have created a new technology called biometrics that promises some useful tools for banking operations.
1986 Australian 27 May (Brisbane ed.) a4/3 (headline) Biometrics a growing force in search for failsafe security.
1995 Wired Jan. 160/2 The future of ‘premises control’, the experts tell me, belongs to ‘biometrics’: fingerprints, prints of retinal patterns, or voiceprints.
2002 B. M. Kernan Synesthete viii. 143 She knew..that even now her biometrics were coursing through unknown databases searching for a match.
2010 N. D. Sarier in P. Samarati et al. Information Security Theory & Pract. 90 Since biometric information is unique, unforgettable and non-transferable, the user only needs to provide his biometrics at the PKG to obtain his secret key.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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