profiling

v. present an outline, present a brief description; draw a portrait of a side view of a head and face

Profiling, the extrapolation of information about something, based on known qualities, may refer specifically to:StereotypesOffender profilingRacial profilingGender biasCultural biasPerformance analysis in (software engineering)
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Noun
1. recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
(hypernym) identification

Noun
1. an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics; "a biochemical profile of blood"; "a psychological profile of serial killers"
(hypernym) chart
(hyponym) population profile
2. a side view representation of an object (especially a human face)
(hypernym) side view
3. biographical sketch
(hypernym) biography, life, life story, life history
4. degree of exposure to public notice; "that candidate does not have sufficient visibility to win an election"; "he prefers a low profile"
(synonym) visibility
(hypernym) salience, saliency, strikingness
5. a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
(hypernym) cross section
(hyponym) soil profile
(part-meronym) horizon
Verb
1. write about; "The author of this article profiles a famous painter"
(hypernym) write, compose, pen, indite
(classification) writing, authorship, composition, penning
2. represent in profile, by drawing or painting
(hypernym) represent, interpret

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Profile
  

(n.)
In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
  

1. A control file for a program, especially a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customise the program's behaviour. Used to avoid hard-coded choices (see also dot file, rc file).
2. A report on the amounts of time spent in each routine of a program, used to find and tune away the hot spots in it. This sense is often verbed. Some profiling modes report units other than time (such as call counts) and/or report at granularities other than per-routine, but the idea is similar.