- the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
- the use of these characteristics to determine whether a person may be engaged in illegal activity, as in racial profiling.
- the practice of categorizing people and predicting their behaviour according to particular characteristics such as race or age
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