ANTHROPOMETRY

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Meaning:

Measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)

Derivation:

anthropometric; anthropometrical (of or relating to anthropometry)