Profile may refer to:

• Profile, the outermost shape, view, or edge of an object
• Profile photography, a portrait outlining the side view of a person, animal or inanimate object
• Profile, an instrumental guitar album by Jan Akkerman
• 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 cuts and/or elevations of fills) for excavation and grading work. A profile can also indicate the vertical slope(s) (changes in elevation) in a pipeline or similar structure.

• • Rail profile

• In game theory, a strategy profile is a specification of strategies for every player in a game.
• 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
  • User profile, a feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system
• Demographic profile: information about a person or a market segment, as used for example by advertisers
• The FilePro DBMS for Tandy Corporation's TRS-80 computers.
• Profile (finance) relates to a category of investor behavior (investor profile) or 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 Entertainment, a record label
• Profile Records, a record label

ProFile may refer to:

• ProFile, the name of a hard drive produced by Apple Computer
• Profile, A type of Professional Disk Recorder -PDR a Hard disk recorder from Grass Valley (company)

Profiles may refer to:

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

See also

• Offender profiling

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