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n. - Measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities.

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  • When we shall have instructed them in anthropometry and psychometry in the most minute manner possible, we shall have only created machines, whose usefulness will be...
  • During the Victorian era, the primary means of identifying a person and linking him or her to a crime was a "science" called anthropometry, which was developed in 1879...
  • Considerable importance in anthropometry is attached to the study of the nose.
  • They were in the ante-office of the Kripo s large identification division, where fingerprint analysis and anthropometry were performed.
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