Definition of "profiling" []

• The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics (noun)
• 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. (noun)
• Present participle of profile. (verb)

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• "RON: No. Actually, the problem with the term profiling I think is the semantics behind it and the fact that most people would interpret profiling as racial or ethnic profiling."
• "More specifically, the term profiling is often used in a context that renders it analogous to discrimination."
• "This is, after all, a sportswriter who made his name profiling adventurers who lived on the edge, a guy's guy who apparently doesn't feel so tough inside."