BIOMETRICS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

biometrics; biometry; biostatistics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("biometrics" 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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