Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who devotes himself to biometry; a biometricist.

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  • noun One who practices biometrics.

Etymologies

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biometric(s) +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • J B S Haldane was a "biometrician", a communist, and a notable popular scientific writer.

    Jennifer Marohasy 2009

  • Their inquiry has ignored the age of the parents at marriage -- or, better still, at the births of their respective children -- and has assumed that the number of the family was the all-important point: a good example of that idolatry of number as number which is the "freak religion" of the biometrician.

    Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles 1909

  • This poison dust packs a powerful punch to the human body, as Dr. Rosalie Bertell, biometrician and environmental epidemiologist, international radiation expert, and Founder of The International Institute of Concern for Public Health explains, "Depleted uranium concentrate is almost 100 percent uranium.

    Depleted Uranium Poison Targets US Citizens 2007

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