单词 | biometry |
释义 | biometryn.ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > expectation of life > calculation of biometry1831 1831 W. Whewell Let. 12 Nov. in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 135 There is a problem in Biometry (if you choose to call your calculations on lives by a Greek name) which may perhaps be included. 1871 Boston Daily Advertiser 14 Jan. The subject of Biometry, as the science which treats of the laws of the duration of life is now called. 1875 Med. Rec. 10 481 Biometry: its relations to the practice of medicine. 1896 Racine (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 18 Nov. 4/3 F. W. Warner spoke upon the subject of ‘Biometry’. Mr. Warner began his discussion by explaining that the subject was a science treating of the measure of life and the laws and conditions which govern its duration. 2. The branch of science that deals with the statistical analysis of numerical data relating to living organisms, esp. concerning genetic relationships or medical conditions. Cf. anthropometry n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > biology > branches of biology 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 1901 F. Galton in Biometrika 1 9 The primary object of Biometry is to afford material that shall be exact enough for the discovery of incipient changes in evolution which are too small to be otherwise apparent. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. ii. 72 When we take the averages of large numbers..we find a strong average resemblance, due to heredity, between parent and offspring, or between brothers and sisters. The science of biometry deals with studies of this sort. 1953 Moberly (Missouri) Monitor-Index 10 Dec. 8/1 E. Cuyler Hammond, Yale professor of biometry,..says there is still no proof—only indications—that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. 1988 Adv. in Appl. Probablity 20 779 Morphological problems in biometry. 2003 Statistician 52 683 His lifelong enthusiasm for biometry and the opportunity that it provided for his involvement in a wide range of applications in the life sciences. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1831 |
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