bertillonage

IPA（発音記号）

/bɛːtijɒˈnɑːʒ/

名詞

不可算名詞

Originally, a system for the identification of criminals making use of anthropometric measurements — including head size, arm span, scars, distinguishing features and the like. The usage has been extended to encompass a means of identification of racing greyhounds.

日本語の意味

人体の計測（頭部の大きさ、腕の長さ、傷跡、特徴など）を用いて犯罪者の身元を識別する制度 / 競走用グレイハウンドの識別手法として応用されている制度

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The museum's exhibit explained how bertillonage once helped police identify criminals through detailed body measurements.

博物館の展示は、かつて人体計測による識別法が詳細な身体測定を通じて警察による犯罪者の特定に役立っていたことを説明していた。

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意味（1）

Originally, a system for the identification of criminals making use of anthropometric measurements — including head size, arm span, scars, distinguishing features and the like. The usage has been extended to encompass a means of identification of racing greyhounds.

Often these [clothing] labels are of more use than the so-called bertillonage, those eleven items of physical measurement and characteristics that must be recorded to make a positive identification but that are useless for anything else and find themselves at the bottom of desk drawers or in unused databases.

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