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BERTILLON
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• BERTILLON (noun)
The noun BERTILLON has 1 sense:
1. French criminologist (1853-1914)
Familiarity information: BERTILLON used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
French criminologist (1853-1914)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Alphonse Bertillon; Bertillon
Instance hypernyms:
criminologist (a specialist in criminology)
Context examples
His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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