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What does profile mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
  2. (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
  3. (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
  4. (countable) A specific space or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
  5. (uncountable) Reputation.
  6. (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
  7. (uncountable) Prominence; noticeability.
  8. (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
  9. Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
  10. (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
  11. (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
  12. (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
Verb
  1. to create a summary or collection of information, especially about a person
  2. to act based on such a summary; especially, to act on a stereotype. See profiling.
  3. (computing) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
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