profiling

IPA: prˈoʊfaɪɫɪŋ

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 profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

Examples of "profiling" in Sentences

With this new law - racial profiling is inevitable.
Racial profiling is insulting to the very image of this country.
Political Correct Reference to "racial profiling" is also insane.
So ... racial profiling is illegal, as is trespassing across the border.
And even Bush guy Michael Chertoff has said that profiling is worse than useless.
Carte blanche racial profiling is the name of this game, and it's a dangerous step in the wrong direction.
More specifically, the term profiling is often used in a context that renders it analogous to discrimination.
This is, after all, a sportswriter who made his name profiling adventurers who lived on the edge, a guy's guy who apparently doesn't feel so tough inside.
RON: No. Actually, the problem with the term profiling I think is the semantics behind it and the fact that most people would interpret profiling as racial or ethnic profiling.