Biometry

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  • noun. Biometrics.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The measurement of life; specifically, the calculation of the probable duration of human life.
  • noun. That branch of statistical science which treats of the measurable or quantitative properties of living beings (as weight or stature), or of their parts (as the stamens and petals of flowers), or of their activities (as Speed).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.
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  • noun. The analysis of biological statistical data; biometrics.
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  • noun. a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis
  • Word Usage
    "The publication of this Report merely hastens the rapid decadence of "biometry," the foundations of which have already been sapped by the re-discovery of Mendelism in 1900; but it was necessary to refer to the matter here, since in the advertisements and the other printed matter paid for by the alcoholic party, the public is being informed that the children of alcoholic parents have been proved to be, on the whole, superior to those of non-alcoholic parents."
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