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BERTILLON SYSTEM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bertillon system mean?
• BERTILLON SYSTEM (noun)
The noun BERTILLON SYSTEM has 1 sense:
1. a system or procedure for identifying persons
Familiarity information: BERTILLON SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A system or procedure for identifying persons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Bertillon system" is a kind of...):
procedure; process (a particular course of action intended to achieve a result)
Context examples
His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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