biometrics
pronunciation
How to pronounce biometrics in British English:
UK [ˌbaɪəʊ'metrɪks]
How to pronounce biometrics in American English:
US [ˌbaɪɒ'metrɪks]
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- Noun:
- a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis
Word Origin
- biometrics (n.)
- "application of mathematics to biology," 1902, from biometric (also see -ics); slightly earlier in this sense was biometry (1901), which was coined by Whewell and used by him and others with a sense of "calculation of life expectancy" (1831).
Example
- 1. Natarajan says biometrics could raise entirely new privacy questions .
- 2. Our radio flight control systems use biometrics .
- 3. The team report in the international journal of biometrics that the system was able to match a knee to an individual correctly 34 % of the time .
- 4. Another problem that biometrics vendors often overlook is the security of the input mechanism .
- 5. For a long time it was assumed that biometrics would be a government-led technology , says sapna capoor , an analyst at frost and sullivan , a consultancy .