Profiling Definition

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noun
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.
American Heritage

Use of a profile to identify persons, esp., in law enforcement, to identify persons to be investigated, interrogated, etc.

Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary

(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.

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verb

Present participle of profile.

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Profiling Sentence Examples

  • Adding symbols for profiling and debugging Profiling is a method of identifying sections of code that consume large portions of execution time.

  • What type of thermocouple wire should I use for profiling surface mount boards?

  • Our FBI profiling model suggests a white male, late twenties / early thirties.

  • As with most con artists, Internet email scammers are adept at profiling your psychological needs and desires.

  • We are now using expression profiling in wildtype and Gli3 mutant mice to identify novel Wnt target genes in the developing cerebral cortex.

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