profiling

English

Noun

profiling (usually uncountable, plural profilings)

1. The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics.
2. (military, historical) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

Hyponyms

• DNA profiling
• facial profiling
• psychological profiling
• racial profiling

 

Translations

forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定性 (zh) (dìngxìng)

• Finnish: profilointi (fi)
• French: profilage (fr) m
• Hungarian: profilozás
• Japanese: プロファイリング (purofairingu)
• Spanish: expediente criminal, expediente (es)

Verb

profiling

1. present participle and gerund of profile