1 the act of stopping and searching people who belong to a particular race or group, for example by the police or at an airport, because they are believed to be more likely to commit crimes ﹙歧视性﹚搜身检查: racial profiling 基于种族歧视的搜身检查

2 the process of collecting and analysing information about sb/sth in order to build up a picture of what he/she/it is like ﹙有关人或事物的﹚数据搜集，特征分析: customer profiling 客户特征分析