profiling

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

Noun

  1. The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics.
    • "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...
  2. 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.

Forms

profilings

Hyponyms

DNA profiling facial profiling glycoprofiling phosphoprofiling psychological profiling racial profiling

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of profile