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ANTHROPOMETRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anthropometry mean?
• ANTHROPOMETRY (noun)
The noun ANTHROPOMETRY has 1 sense:
1. measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities
Familiarity information: ANTHROPOMETRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("anthropometry" is a kind of...):
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)
Derivation:
anthropometric; anthropometrical (of or relating to anthropometry)
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