Profile

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Profile may refer to:

• Profile (engineering):

• In standardization, a profile consists of an agreed-upon subset and interpretation of a specification.
• In fabricating, a profile consists of the more-or-less complex outline of a shape to be cut in a sheet of material such as laminated plastic, aluminium alloy or steel plate.
• In structural engineering a profile means a hot rolled structural steel shape like an I-beam.
• In civil engineering, a profile consists of a plotted line which indicates grades and distances (and typically depths of cut and/or elevations of fill) for excavation and grading work. A profile can also indicate the vertical slope(s) (changes in elevation) in a pipeline or similar structure.

• A Wing profile in aerodynamics is a cross-section of a wing showing the curvature of the upper and lower surfaces
• Profile, to execute a performance analysis
• Profile, configuration settings and other data associated with an individual user or with a group
• Profile, personal information about a user in instant messaging and online chat applications
• The FilePro DBMS for Tandy Corporation's TRS-80 computers.
• Profile (finance) relates to a category of investor behavior (investor profile) our a kind of stock (stock profile)
• In Technical Theatre, a Profile spot is a type of lighting fixture.
• In the Unified Modeling Language, a profile provides a generic extension mechanism for building UML models.

ProFile may refer to:

• ProFile, the name of a hard drive produced by Apple Computer

Profiles may refer to:

• Profiles, a 1985 album by Nick Mason and Rick Fenn

[edit] See also

• Offender profiling

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