Profiling

Full definition of profiling

Noun

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

Derived terms

• DNA profiling
• psychological profiling
• racial profiling

Verb

1. Present participle of profile