anthropometry

Meaning

Noun

• The science of measuring the human body in order to ascertain the average dimensions of the human form at different ages, and in different divisions of race, class, etc.

Origin

• 1839, as anthropo- + -metry, from French anthropométrie, from anthropo- + -métrie, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος + μέτρον, influenced by Latin use.