Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as biometric.

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  • adjective Of, or pertaining to biometrics—the measurement of biological data.

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Examples

  • This technology should never be deployed without formal restrictions on their use to ensure biometrical data is not kept or stored on innocent people, said Karen McCreary, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah.

    FBI, police go high-tech to fight crime 2011

  • If you go for the biometrical details, credit card numbers and passwords to private emails addresses, I call that spying.

    WikiLeaks US embassy cables: as it happened Matthew Weaver 2010

  • ˜The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance™, which showed how the biometrical and Mendelian research traditions could be unified.

    Population Genetics Okasha, Samir 2006

  • Sharpened security measures since September 11 now include a greater level of state control over the personal information of citizens or visitors (for example, the biometrical data collected at airports).

    Translantic Relations and Security Policy: Common Interests, Values and History 2004

  • And to do that we got Dr. Atwood, who is head of the Department of Plant Breeding Genetics at Cornell, to go through some extensive tests which he applied as a biometrical statistical method, to find out what is the sample which will give you specific results and then to measure the qualities that give you what you want.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950

  • When the figure of a man was reconstructed in accordance with average biometrical proportions, it was found to correspond in a remarkable manner to the proportions of

    Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

  • "This technology should never be deployed without formal restrictions on their use to ensure biometrical data is not kept or stored on innocent people," said Karen McCreary, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • Nokia users can also follow the countdown, stream the final jump in real time and watch Felix Baumgartner's pulse race by monitoring his biometrical data before, during and after the jump.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • In some parts of the world this has meant applicants must go to regional centres, just as in Rohan's case, located in a different country instead of being able to apply, submit their biometrical details, or follow their applications in any British consulate or High Commission, for example: Burkina Faso, Burundi,

    openDemocracy Valérie Hartwich 2010

  • In some parts of the world this has meant applicants must go to regional centres, just as in Rohan's case, located in a different country instead of being able to apply, submit their biometrical details, or follow their applications in any British consulate or High Commission, for example: Burkina Faso, Burundi,

    openDemocracy Valérie Hartwich 2010

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