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BIOMETRY

Dictionary entry overview: What does biometry mean?

• BIOMETRY (noun)
The noun BIOMETRY has 1 sense:

1. a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis

Familiarity information: BIOMETRY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BIOMETRY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

biometrics; biometry; biostatistics

Hypernyms ("biometry" is a kind of...):

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

bioscience; life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)

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