by 1852 as a term in field engineering, verbal noun from profile (v.). The racial/ethnic stereotyping sense is attested from c. 1991, American English.

Measuring the lateral variation of a property, such as gravity or magnetic fields. Probing, in contrast, is the term used to describe the measurement of vertical variations of a property in electromag [..]

Systematic method of collecting, collating, and analyzing patient data to develop provider-specific information about medical practice.

Profiling in sport refers to an exercise in which athletes identify the most import physical and mental attributes necessary for optimal athletic performance and then classify the degree to which they [..]

the practice of singling out persons for law enforcement procedures on the basis of predetermined characteristics ;specif ]

Selecting standards for a particular application.

Profiling refers to the law enforcement practice of the detention, interdiction, or other disparate treatment of an individual on the basis of the racial or ethnic status of such individual. Many comm [..]

(n) 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

 The practice of tracking information about consumers' interests by monitoring their movements online. This can be done without using any personal information, but simply by analyzing the content, URL’s, and other information about a user’s browsing path/click-stream.  

an approach to assessment which provides detailed judgements about a range of relevant characteristics, qualities, abilities

A technique for identifying individuals of a species that is based on the uniqueness of their DNA sequence. Uniqueness is determined by identifying which combination of allelic variations occur in the [..]

The determination of the pattern of Genes expressed at the level of Genetic Transcription, under specific circumstances or in a specific Cell.

(or 'criminal profiling' or 'psychological profiling'). Method of narrowing the field of suspects by identifying the individual's likely mental, emotional, psychological, and [..]

Accumulating student information, both formative and summative, to ensure a correct record is kept of his/her progress, used to inform appropriate programming for the student.

In geophysics, a survey method whereby an array of sensors is moved along the Earth's surface without change in its configuration, in order to detect lateral changes in the properties of the subsurface (faults, buried channels, etc..). The alternative is usually a sounding.

The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics. (military,historical) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profil [..]