profiling

POS

Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

pro=fil=ing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun profiling has 1 sense

profiling(n = noun.communication) - 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;

is a kind of

identification

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CIDE DICTIONARY

profiling, n.

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. [1913 Webster]