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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system formerly used for identifying persons by means of a detailed record of body measurements, physical description, and photographs. The Bertillon system was superseded by the more accurate procedure of fingerprinting.
from The Century Dictionary.
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a system or procedure for identifying persons
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Alphonse Bertillon.]
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