profiling

pro·fil·ing

P5631650 (prō′fī′lĭng)n.1. The use of data compiled about people who have committed criminal offenses in the effort to describe or identify the most likely suspects in a particular crime: criminal profiling; psychological profiling.2. The use of racial, economic, ethnic, or other characteristics by law enforcement as the basis of determining whom to search or investigate on suspicion of criminal activity.3. See DNA profiling.4. See molecular profiling.

profiling

(ˈprəʊˌfaɪlɪŋ) nthe practice of categorizing people and predicting their behaviour according to particular characteristics such as race or age: racial profiling.

pro•fil•ing

(ˈproʊ faɪ lɪŋ)
n. the use of specific characteristics, as race or age, to make generalizations about a person, as whether he or she may be engaged in illegal activity.

Thesaurus

Noun

profiling - recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of peopleidentification - evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing

Translations

profilage

Profiling

profiling

[′prō‚fīl·iŋ] (engineering) Electrical exploration wherein the transmitter and receiver are moved in unison across a structure to obtain a profile of mutual impedance between transmitter and receiver. Also known as lateral search.

Profiling

(in the working of articles), the reproduction by a cutting tool of a profile (outline) or shape (volume) of articles made from various materials on lathes, milling machines, and other machines equipped with duplicating devices or on special copying machines.

Mechanical profiling during the cutting of articles was first used in the early 18th century by the Russian engineer A. K. Nartov. Lathes with mechanical duplicating devices—for example, copying milling machines for engraving and duplicating devices used on lathes and milling machines—became widespread in the 19th century. Complex profiling machines with servomechanisms appeared in the early 20th century.

In profiling the source for the reproduction of an outline or shape is a template, pattern, model, or blueprint from which motion is transmitted to the cutting tool through a servomechanism consisting of a sensing device (transducer), an amplifying-converting device, a control circuit, and an actuating mechanism.

profiling

Related to profiling: Criminal profiling, Psychological profiling

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Words related to profiling

noun recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people

Related Words

identification