Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A profiling-machine; a machine for cutting a profile on an edge by passing a rotating cutter along the edge while a former or guide compels the cutter to reproduce a predetermined outline on the work.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
  • noun A person who creates a profile for something or someone, especially a psychological profile for an unknown criminal.
  • noun computing A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

profile +‎ -er

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Examples

  • After the runaway success of Jacobson’s first Karen Vail novel, The 7th Victim, our impressive FBI profiler is back in the fantastic follow-up, Crush.

    “Crush” by Alan Jacobson (Vanguard Press, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • After the runaway success of Jacobson’s first Karen Vail novel, The 7th Victim, our impressive FBI profiler is back in the fantastic follow-up, Crush.

    2010 February 21 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • The 34-year-old psychiatrist analyzes criminal behavior and is the only so-called profiler at Japan's National Police Agency (NPA).

    Wanted: Police Who Think Like Killers 2008

  • Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: British surname profiler skip to main

    British surname profiler Steve Sailer 2006

  • This year, we decided to focus on the new profiler, which is a new tool for the Windows Phone developer.

    Site Home sktodd 2011

  • It's also worth noting how the V4 CLR decides whether a profiler is a V2 or V4 profiler in the first place.

    Site Home 2010

  • You can then directly call the profiler control from your code as shown in the below code snippet.

    The Code Project Latest Articles 2009

  • A profiler is a performance analysis tool that measures the behavior of a program as it executes, particularly the frequency and duration of function calls.

    AspNetResources.com articles, news and updates 2009

  • Next, copy the development configuration block in config / database. yml and create a new block called profiler profiler: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 database: YOUR_DATABASE username: YOUR_USERNAME password: YOUR_PASSWORD socket: / tmp / mysql. sock

    Don't Forget to Plant It! 2008

  • GERAGOS: They are now bringing in a profiler which is something totally different than what interviews are.

    CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2001 2001

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