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Profiling

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics. uncountable, usually

    ""If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case.""

  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    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. historical, uncountable, usually
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of profile form-of, gerund, participle, present

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