an·thro·pom·e·try ( n thr -p m  -tr )n. The study of human body measurement for use in anthropological classification and comparison. an thro·po·metric (-p-m trk), anthro·po·metri·cal (-r-kl) adj.an thro·po·metri·cal·ly adv.an thro·pome·trist n. |
anthropometry [ˌænθrəˈpɒmɪtrɪ]
n
(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) the comparative study of sizes and proportions of the human body
anthropometric [ˌænθrəpəˈmɛtrɪk], anthropometrical adj
anthropometrically adv
anthropometrist n
| anthropometry (nthr-pm-tr) The study of human body measurement for use in anthropological classification and comparison. The use of such data as skull dimensions and body proportions in the attempt to classify human beings into racial, ethnic, and national groups has been largely discredited, but anthropometric techniques are still used in physical anthropology and paleoanthropology, especially to study evolutionary change in fossil hominid remains. |
anthropometry
the study concerned with the measurements of the proportions, size, and weight of the human body. — anthropometrist, n. — anthropometric, anthropometrical, adj.
See also: Anatomy
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| Noun | 1. |  anthropometry - measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacitiesmeasurement, measuring, mensuration, measure - the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate" |
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