Definition of Anthropometry

1. Noun. Measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities.


Definition of Anthropometry

1. n. Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc.

Definition of Anthropometry

1. Noun. The science of measuring the human body in order to ascertain the average dimensions of the human form at different ages, and in different divisions of race, class etc. ¹

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Definition of Anthropometry

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Medical Definition of Anthropometry

1. The technique that deals with the measurement of the size, weight, and proportions of the human or other primate body. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropometry

anthropolites
anthropologic
anthropological
anthropologically
anthropologies
anthropologist
anthropologists
anthropology
anthropology department
anthropomancy
anthropometer
anthropometric
anthropometrical
anthropometrically
anthropometries
anthropometry (current term)
anthropomorph
anthropomorpha
anthropomorphic
anthropomorphically
anthropomorphisation
anthropomorphisations
anthropomorphise
anthropomorphised
anthropomorphises
anthropomorphising
anthropomorphism
anthropomorphisms
anthropomorphist
anthropomorphists

Literary usage of Anthropometry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Experimental Sociology. Descriptive and Analytical: Delinquents by Frances Kellor (1901)
"There is as yet no satisfactory way of correcting these defects: In anthropometry there is no opportunity for deception. In psychology a norm has been ..."

2. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1905)
"THE OUT-GROWTH OF THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE ON anthropometry, APPOINTED 1903. ... carelessness and involved the whole subject of anthropometry in dispute. ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"anthropometry. Stature of the Japanese (Misc.), 17:142. Tests of eye-sight, hand-grip, and breathing capacity (Misc.), : 283. Variations in human stature (9 ..."

4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"... or did anything in contempt of the law, shall pay to the king. Termes de la Ley; Cunningham, Law Diet. FINGERPRINTS. See anthropometry. ..."

5. The Female offender by Cesare Lombroso, Guglielmo Ferrero (1897)
"anthropometry OF FEMALE CRIMINALS. \. Authors and the cases they studied.—In the list of those who have recently made a study of the characteristics of ..."

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