anthropometric

American  

[an-thruh-puh-me-trik, -poh-] / ˌæn θrə pəˈmɛ trɪk, -poʊ- /

Sometimes anthropometrical

adjective

1. of or relating to anthropometry, the measurement of the size and proportions of the human body.

   Anthropometric data show that economy airline seats are too narrow at shoulder level for American men, and too narrow at seat level for women.

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Other Word Forms

• anthropometrically adverb

Etymology

Origin of anthropometric

anthropo- ( def. ) + -metric ( def. )

Example Sentences

Individuals with a high BMI plus at least one elevated anthropometric measure are classified as having obesity, a category the authors call "BMI-plus-anthropometric obesity."

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025

The dataset covers anthropometric - measurements related to the physical dimensions and composition of the human body- outcomes for 195,024 children under five in India and 202,557 children under five in Sub-Saharan Africa.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024

Around 1988, researchers here in England looked at some anthropometric data and decided they needed to create a new head form standard.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2021

In The Mismeasure of Man, his classic critique of scientific attempts to categorize and rank humans, biologist Stephen Jay Gould calls Lombroso’s theory “probably the most influential doctrine ever to emerge from the anthropometric tradition.”

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2019

In one corner stood an iron bed, with a strip of green grass matting before it, and in the other a pair of Indian clubs and a set of chest-weights flanked an anthropometric scale.

From The Professor's Mystery by Hastings, Wells