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Profile , profile
pro·file / ˈprōˌfīl/ • n. 1. an outline of something, esp. a person's face, as seen from one side: the man turned and she caught his profile.… Profiling , PROFILING
Online profiling generated heated opinions for both pro and con as e-commerce achieved prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s. A meth… River Profile , river profile The slope of the long profile of a river, expressed as a graph of distance-from-source against height. It is generally concave-up, and… Slope Profile , slope profile The two-dimensional form of a hillslope when measured down the steepest gradient. Traditionally it has been divided into a number of un… Weathering Profile , weathering profile A vertical section, from the ground surface to unaltered bedrock, which passes through weathering zones. It is usually best develo… Chernozem , chernozem(black earth) A freely draining soil profile whose name is the Russian word for ‘black earth’. Chernozems are associated with grassland vege…
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