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Art, entertainment and media


Music

* ''Profile'' (Jan Akkerman album), 1973 * ''Profile'' (Githead album), 2005 * ''Profile'' (Pat Donohue album), 2005 * ''Profile'' (Duke Pearson album), 1959 * '' ''Profiles'' (Nick Mason and Rick Fenn album)'', a 1985 album by Nick Mason and Rick Fenn * ''Profiles'' (Gary McFarland album), a 1966 live album by Gary McFarland * ''Profile'' (Misako Odani album), 1997 * ''Profile'' (Wolfe Tones album)


Film and television

* ''Profile'' (2018 film), a film directed by Timur Bekmambetov *
Profile (1954 film) ''Profile'' is a 1954 British thriller film directed by Francis Searle and starring John Bentley, Kathleen Byron and Thea Gregory.Chibnall & McFarlane p.153 It was shot at Shepperton Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director No ...
, British thriller film * ''Profile'' (1955 TV series) (1955–1957), a Canadian biographical television series * ''Profiles'' (TV series) (1979–1980), a Canadian biographical television series * ''Profile'' (2018 TV series), an American streaming television talk show


Other art, entertainment and media

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Profile (Marvel Comics) The Profile is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Publication history The character was created by writer Charlie Huston and penciler David Finch, and first appeared in ''Moon Knight'' (Vol. 3) ...
, a Marvel Comics character * ''Profile'' (novel), a 2009 novel by Chris Westwood * "The Profile" (short story), a 1907 short story by Willa Cather


Classification of individuals and groups of people

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Demographic profile Demographic profiling is a form of demographic analysis used by marketers so that they may be as efficient as possible with advertising products or services and identifying any possible gaps in their marketing strategy. Demographic profiling can e ...
, information about a person or market segment, commonly used in marketing. May also include photographic information (e.g., "profile picture") *
Investor profile An investor profile or style defines an individual's preferences in investment decisions, for example: * Short-term trading (active management) or long term holding (buy and hold) * Risk-averse or risk tolerant / seeker * All classes of assets or ...
, a classification of investor behavior * Profile, a dossier of
offender profiling Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is an investigative strategy used by law enforcement agencies to identify likely suspects and has been used by investigators to link cases that may have been committed by the same perpetrator. ...
data


Computing and technology

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Profile (engineering) In standardization, a profile is a subset internal to a specification. Aspects of a complex technical specification may necessarily have more than one interpretation, and there are probably many optional features. These aspects constitute a profi ...
, with several meanings in the context of engineering *
Profile (UML) A profile in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) provides a generic extension mechanism for customizing Unified Modeling Language, UML models for particular Domain model, domains and platforms. Extension mechanisms allow refining standard semantics ...
, a concept in Unified Modeling Language *
Apple ProFile The ProFile (codenamed Pippin) was the first hard disk drive produced by Apple Computer, initially for use with the Apple III personal computer. The original model had a formatted capacity of 5 MB and connected to a special interface card that pl ...
, a hard drive *
FIS Profile Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American multinational corporation which offers a wide range of financial products and services. FIS is most known for its development of Financial Technology, or FinTech, and as of Q2 202 ...
, a banking transaction processing database engine *
ICC profile In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium (ICC). Profiles describe the color attributes of a ...
, used for colour management of computer displays and digital images *
User profile A user profile is a collection of settings and information associated with a user. It contains critical information that is used to identify an individual, such as their name, age, portrait photograph and individual characteristics such as ...
, refers to the computer representation of user information *
Profiling (computer programming) In software engineering, profiling ("program profiling", "software profiling") is a form of dynamic program analysis that measures, for example, the space (memory) or time complexity of a program, the usage of particular instructions, or the fr ...
, a form of performance analysis to investigate the behavior of a software program


Other meanings

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Profile Books Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996. It publishes non-fiction subjects including history, biography, memoir, politics, current events, current affairs, travel and popular science. Profile Books is distribu ...
, a British independent publisher *
Profile portrait A silhouette ( , ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhou ...
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Profile Spotlight Ellipsoidal reflector spot (abbreviated to ERS, or colloquially ellipsoidal or ellipse) is the name for a type of stage lighting instrument, named for the ellipsoidal reflector used to collect and direct the light through a barrel that contai ...
, a stage lighting fixture *
Strategy profile In game theory, a player (game), player's strategy is any of the options which they choose in a setting where the outcome depends ''not only'' on their own actions ''but'' on the actions of others. The discipline mainly concerns the action of a pl ...
, a concept in game theory *
Old Man of the Mountain The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when v ...
, a former rock formation in New Hampshire also known as the Profile * a curved ( molding) or plain fascia connecting surfaces, mostly decoratively, in architecture * a genre of
portrait art Portrait Painting is a Hierarchy of genres, genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commissi ...
depicted from the perspective of the side


See also

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Profiling (disambiguation) Profiling, the extrapolation of information about something, based on known qualities, may refer specifically to: Technology *Profiling (information science) in information science *Profiling (computer programming) in software engineering *DNA prof ...
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Low profile (disambiguation) Low Profile was an American hip hop duo from Los Angeles. The group consisted of rapper William "W.C." Calhoun Jr. and record producer Alphonso "D.J. Aladdin" Henderson,Birchmeier, JasonLow Profile Biography, Allmusic. Retrieved November 16, ...
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